My guess at this point would be a lack of power to the drive. You should be able to hear it do *something*.
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The drive must be receiving +5V because of the X …
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 19:48
Slapping and spanking never helped me much with the BabyPB, what I always did when I had intermittent stiction problems with one of them was to set it up on a hard surface, (back l…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Trash80toHP_MiniMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 19:37
Sorry for the lag, I was away from my workstations this weekend. The second image you posted, Tron, works fine. Here are the numbers:
CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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68kMLAHardwareby ClassicHasClassMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 19:29
OIC. Then you can just pick the hosts out of the list and whitelist? That actually sounds more manageable. If that's what you mean, I like that idea even better.
FTR, NoScript is …
68kMLATroubleshootingby ClassicHasClassMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 19:25
Right, the Blueberry is finished, with 10.4.11 on a 10gb hard drive and the USB wifi dongle. Taking apart and upgrading etc took far less time than before, just a couple of hours..…
You sometimes find those oddball clones on the European ebay sites, because most of them were sold there. I have yet to find a Maxxboxx for sale,though, and I want one.
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 18:36
I'll most likely do that as soon as I get brave enough to take the bad boy apart 8-o If the slap trick doesn't work, something else may have to be a donor xx(
68kMLATroubleshootingby oldmossingerMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 18:23
Dennis, to answer a couple of your questions, yes the drive is auto-inject, but it's not necessarily known working. It was working when it was pulled quite a while ago, but I did n…
If AfterMac's spare drive hooked up I now get a disk with a red X through it.
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I assume the X appears red because of your unusual monitor setup. In actuality…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 16:08
If AfterMac's spare drive hooked up I now get a disk with a red X through it. The drive never actually tries to read the disk though (no noise) and I know the disk is good anyway.…
I think most of them have the coating, even as far back as the 128k. My 128k has it, I just assumed they all did. Here's a photo of the guts of a 128k, with the coating:
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68kMLATroubleshootingby LCGuyMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 11:23
If the HD is struggling to spin, it usually requires a firm spanking/slap to get it up ... if you know what I mean
But seriously, if not turned on for a while I've found many …
68kMLATroubleshootingby ByrdMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 05:54
I wish you good luck with recovering the PB100. The only one I have owned had the lit up but blank screen issue. Eventually i gave it away and if I was smart I would have kept th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby StrimkindMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 05:01
I'm sorry if this is easily found on the site; I did look for an answer but could not find it.
I need to contact an admin/moderator for the following issue...any pointing in the r…
68kMLATroubleshootingby elSchusMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 04:03
I was going to ask if that coating was common to all the machines; I have memories of opening a 512k with my dad and seeing a more plastic-like interior.
Ah, I didn't realize …
68kMLATroubleshootingby elSchusMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 03:57
Here is the damage. The last two photos are a 'before' (flat) and an 'after' (on the drainboard) of the bezel. I did remove the Apple badge; it was fun to learn it's just a metal s…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 03:39
Why does it have two batteries?
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http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/images/macIIfxsch.GIF
Each battery is 3.6V. I'm not exactly sure from just glancing why t…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 01:47
Here is the damage.
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While there is no way to undo the damage, I am sorry to say, you would be doing others a service by posting this story and links to your …
68kMLATroubleshootingby JDWMon, 22 Feb 2010 - 00:27
I have been tempted many times to get and try out the following product, but I have no clue how it compares to the original
http://www.allbatterysalesandservice.com/browse.cfm/4,4…
68kMLATroubleshootingby OsgeldSun, 21 Feb 2010 - 23:25
Thanks, JDW. I think a combination of the gel method mixed with some more patience & planning would have done the trick.
Here is the damage. The last two photos are a 'be…
68kMLATroubleshootingby el.SchusSun, 21 Feb 2010 - 22:54
I had a fear of that happening myself; namely, that the metallic spray inside the case might be adversely affected by the H202 during deyellowing. But in my case, the reason I ult…
68kMLATroubleshootingby JDWSun, 21 Feb 2010 - 21:50
Hello, long time lurker, first-time poster. :b&w:
A week ago I found the threads related to de-yellowing the compacts (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9381&start=0), …
68kMLATroubleshootingby el.SchusSun, 21 Feb 2010 - 20:11