The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …

Extensions Manager is your friend. Disable everything and then add it back in progressively. As a starting point, try turning off Virtual Memory (not just disabling the control pan…

O.M.G. No words to describe this.

I've shifted in to 640x480 on my Apple Multiple Scan 17" monitor with Mac mini and OS 10.5.6

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…

Very nice modification. Shame that OS X won't support the resolution. Wonder if you can get a CRT tube that will got higher than 640x480 in the same dimensions.

Back in the day when Gamba was with us (RIP, Gamba.) Click to expand... Wait what happened to him?

Are there any DIP switches on the card that need adjusting, or have you tried adjusting the backside cache speed using CPU Director? JB

I've been running this 8500 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 processor for years. I've had no issues with it and I've been quite satisfied. I've rigged this machine with 768MB of memory, …

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

If you've got an SE there's about a 50/50 chance of having one or the other from my observations. The Samsungs are rare in Classics and Pluses/pre-Pluses. As I mentioned in my stic…

Check Scott's stickied thread on CRTs - the compacts used CRTs made by both Clinton Electronics and Samsung.

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

Battery reset was probably needed to fix a software bug in the smart controller inside the battery, something nobody noticed untill so many hours of use in specific circumstances c…

That the battery charges in the VST charger is absolutely key. It can't be a bad battery. Now I am no expert, but I would probably try the following: unplug backup battery and ma…

COOOOOOOOOOL

I've tried BatteryReset and it made no difference. I'll concede that the battery is probably bad. The strange thing, though, is that it will charge to four lights and be usable in …

Nah someone else found it a while ago and I remebered the site which was myoldmac.net, I remebered because it made quite an impact on me as a such an awesome mod as well. :approv…

Remove the PRAM battery if it is dead, just causes problems. Sounds like you either messed up a cable or something if those buttons do not work, not a common problem.

I continue to be amazed at how quickly people can find this stuff!

Here: http://myoldmac.net/cgi-data/gal/thumbnails.php?album=70

1. sounds like the battery itself is faulty. Have you tried Battery Reset? 2. sound like the backup battery is long past dead. 3. no idea, but I have never heard of this problem …

...but many of those were green or amber. Click to expand... THAT would be cool to have a green CRT in a compact Mac. Does anyone have pictures to show of this being done?

So do you have to get them from a broken SE or is there some other viable source? Click to expand... The best source is another compact. Luckily CRTs of all compacts are electr…