Hi all, After washing and recapping my SE/30´s mobo, it now starts with a loud, clear "bong" -- no more SimasiMac! Here it is, connected via LocalTalk to my Quadra 700 (as AppleSh…

So after nearly a year, I'm reconsidering working on this iBook again. I just wanted to see if there were any second opinions about whats wrong with it. For a flashback, this mach…

Latin on the forum again? That can only be good....

To the best of my fading memory, System 7.1 Update 3 is not synonymous with a System 7.1.3, wot of there never was one. However, there was/is a Finder 7.1.3. Some reference to the …

There used to be arguments among memory upgraders about whether to use sockets or not. There are some 128K boards which just don't have enough juice to drive the extra capacitance …

I just went and bought a new screen for my PowerBook G4 today! Now all I have to do is wait 3-4 days. Finally, I'll be able to use it as a laptop, except I don't have a battery…

Notice, he's wisely replaced them with sockets. But I have a stack of failed 128K boards all with Apple-branded, Sad Mac RAM error codes in need of replacement. Yet I have never se…

I second phreakout and Bunsen's suggestion to ensure the OS 9 drivers checkbox is ticked. Because Apple would rather pretend that Mac OS 9 never existed, when you format a volume i…

Also, OS 9.1 doesn't recognize OS X volumes natively. You need to make sure that you have a file extension called 'carblib version 1.6' installed. Carblib, short for Carbon Library…

I had to install USB Mass Storage Support. Works a treat now.

Just a quick question. I've seen it mentioned that 8.6 and up supports flash drives. But I can't get a fresh 8.6 install on my B&W G3 to read one (while it works fine in 9.…

excessive shorted turns in the primary of the flyback will cause the flyback, and the horizontal output transistor to run excessively hot. Keep this in mind as well.... loose cores…

I have one that fizzes Nicola Tesla stylee (big blue arcs of HV) the sparks come from the triper (next to where the red HT cable is attached) to the scan coil cables, looks great i…

I know this thread is now somewhat old. I have an Atari ST 1040 with Sequencer One Plus (now free) and that is the tightest to date. It has two issue that get me, one is it sends …

I had success repairing two of my mac portables with Sad Macs after lengthy board repairs. As for opening the batteries, its been quite some time since I opened one, I used a box …

I had two dead Portable batteries. I wanted to re-cell them, so I attempted opening one with a screwdriver, but that totally messed up and and bent the plastic. I have one remainin…

No, they don't all have working batteries.. yet. I have a whole stack of macs, I have been collecting them for years, due to the fact many that I bought had varying problems with …

If you installed any backwards, that is exactly the problem. You have a lot of Portables. What do you do with them all? Do they all have batteries that work?

Actually i think i know why.. It seems I installed the all the wrong way around... ARG! Why is the painted stripe on SMD caps negative, but positive on tantalums! GO FIGURE!@ WO…

Hi Everyone I've just rebuilt about 12 of my Mac Portable's however I had one issue, when I replaced my some of my portables SMD caps with Tantalums, well 3 of them caught fire! …

Yes, trag's caps are great. I need to get some more from him. I am missing one capacitor in order to complete the replacement on my SE/30. I am also missing one capacitor in order …

Thanks to Trag whose handy capacitor kits make it easy to get into fixing up these boards. If it weren't for him, my portables would still be sitting dead in the closet. :beige: …

I finished capacitor replacement a few nights ago. Here are some pictures.

That's a very good tip. Though it does require constructing an extra long cable between the logic board and analogue board. It also doesn't help identify more than one bad chip at …

I remember a trick that I tried. With the board out of the case, press a memory chip over the chips on the board one at a time Make sure that the pins only touch the correspondin…