I'm ruling out the ata bus's died.

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear. Extremely strict on guidelines.

mix some thermal paste with gel super glue Click to expand... [...]but the tube of adhesive to attach it to the new logic board is basically more expensive than to just …

yes it most likely came as a service pack Click to expand... I agree; that really is the only way that makes sense. That's strange too though because there are no instructions…

I pulled out my power supply to clean it up a bit underneath, and I decided I would try to add an 80 conductor cable to my G3. However, I found that the connector is slightly diffe…

yes it most likely came as a service pack

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that.Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun? Click to expand... I thought about using a heat gun,…

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that. Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun?

Here's a picture of one of my faulty boards:

Here is a picture of it as seen in the Apple Service Manual: This is from page 91: Take Apart/Procedures/I/O Logic Board/PCMCIA Card Cage. You can see the shiny adhesive pad…

Yeah maybe I can fix something this time instead of breaking it :b&w:

Panther and Tiger install CDs. They'll load on my iMac but not on the G3. I have an external DVD writer hooked up to the G3 it will list it in System Profiler but I can't access an…

thats good, go slow and take breaks GOOD LUCK!

Well I'd like to revive this thread, because I am recapping the board right now. I have done 3 so far with success, I get to test it on monday.

What OSX are you trying to boot?

The G3 has been booted with OS 8.6 but for some reason won't boot to OSX. 256mb of ram, Twin Turbo 8mb secondary pci video card, 300mhz.

I remember hearing that. So what's that mean? I'll have unreliable master and slave on both IDE motherboard connections? Click to expand... There should be a big thread about i…

Pretty sure a new logic board is sold without any heat sinks. Could you post a picture of the GPU Heatsink? You could make a makeshift heatsink... Or just buy another Pismo one.

I think you will have issues with any slave drives on either channels under classic mac os.

I remember hearing that. So what's that mean? I'll have unreliable master and slave on both IDE motherboard connections?

Does anyone have any idea why these would have NO heatsink, though? They are brand new, and there is no residue of any heatsink ever having been installed. The seller on eBay say…

In my SE/30, I am currently using an R-IDSC-E SCSI to IDE converter purchased off ebay, which is still for sale for ~$35. http://cgi.ebay.com/IDE-40pin-to-SCSI-50pin-Bridge-Adapte…

Almost: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183192 http://www.acard.com.tw/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=249&prod_no=ARS-2000SUP&type1_tit…

If there was a simple, low-cost 50-pin SCSI SSD or CF card solution out there, no doubt we'd all being linking to the product here on 68kMLA. For who among us doesn't want such a …

Even so, this solution is not as idea as a dedicated SSD due to the limited number of writes on Flash memories. Click to expand... Typical SSDs are rated to 1million write cycl…