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400k floppy drive woes — #5

I have done three of these 400K drives that were stuck; all of them it was the eject lever mechanisms that were so plugged with old grease they would not move. It took several days…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by trag Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 15:54

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #9

OK So I have a small problem installing 9. I boot the 9.2.1 CD I have it hangs at the Happy Mac Classic... Help?
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mars478 Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 15:15

400k floppy drive woes — #4

Oh, okay, thanks. Well, I'll track down some lubing chemicals and such and I'll give it a go on that floppy drive. JDW recently suggested to me that I upload pics of the drive as…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Apostrophe Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 12:13

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #8

I've always wanted to take a screenshot of a school computer, the delete everything on the desktop and set that screen shot to the desktop. } Click to expand... What a fun idea!…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Sludgedragon Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 06:23

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #7

I've always wanted to take a screenshot of a school computer, the delete everything on the desktop and set that screen shot to the desktop. }
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Christopher Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 03:38

400k floppy drive woes — #3

I have done three of these 400K drives that were stuck; all of them it was the eject lever mechanisms that were so plugged with old grease they would not move. It took several days…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by stevep Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 03:22

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #6

It had 10.4 and I wiped it because it had a bunch of teacher crap. I plan to put 9 on one partition and 10.5 on the other. I've restarted the Machine a few times, and the CRT is …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mars478 Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 03:16

400k floppy drive woes — #2

It has now been several years since I last opened up a 400K drive, so my memory is foggy on certain details. But I can say with certainty that two things make direct contact with t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 02:42

Sata controler recomendation? — #6

I described what I did here: http://www.macmod.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3522 But just look around on newegg for Sil3512 cards. It is a really straight forward proc…
68kMLA Networking by MacJunky Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 01:00

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #5

Check the video cable connector, I've heard just insulating it with electrical tape can fix alot of bs depending on what is up with yours. (google a bunch, dont dye on crt, etc...)
68kMLA Troubleshooting by zerotypeq Tue, 4 Aug 2009 - 00:04

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #3

Very nice Mine has a undecided CRT, It is sometimes DIM and sometime Bright... [Edit] Since I cant edit my OP I'll put it here: Pictures:
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mars478 Mon, 3 Aug 2009 - 22:59

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #2

Hopefully you don't have as many problems w/ your eMac as I do w/ mine. My eMac is "special". Here is the ritual of getting it started up: 1. Cross fingers and press power butto…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by macgeek417 Mon, 3 Aug 2009 - 22:26

School Lab:eMac 700 MHZ. — #1

Hey everyone! Just got my eMac 700. It was a teachers and had a trillion stickers. I haven't powered it up, but dang this thing is heavy!!! I might put OS 9 on it :beige: I'll…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mars478 Mon, 3 Aug 2009 - 21:06

Rip Van Winkle SE — #19

You're very right, and I respect your decision. Sorry if I have been rude. However, a better idea would be to advertise here on the Trading Post, the 68KMLA's own stop for sell…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JRL Sun, 2 Aug 2009 - 20:37

Sata controler recomendation? — #5

Thanks for that info and I am running tiger, it runs great on the b&w (well good enough anyways) since all it is running transmission and serving up files to my house (or w…
68kMLA Networking by zerotypeq Sun, 2 Aug 2009 - 19:56

Rip Van Winkle SE — #18

I read the documentation on how to do it (many thanks), and got to the point of actually removing two screws to release the chassis, then stopped and thought long and hard about wh…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by johnboy Sun, 2 Aug 2009 - 19:16

Sata controler recomendation? — #4

Get a couple cheap Sil3512 based cards from newegg or something and flash them with wiebetech TCS1-1 firmware. No drivers to install, bootable. Only down side is only two ports an…
68kMLA Networking by MacJunky Sun, 2 Aug 2009 - 19:16

What?! — #15

Sorry, but I'm going to go into rant mode here, mostly because I don't like MrMacPlus' response. It is indicative, in my mind, of a phenomena that I refer to as anti-spam fascism.…
68kMLA Networking by MrMacPlus Sun, 2 Aug 2009 - 05:05
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