I gave the CRT, Analogue, and Power Board a good dusting, hooked it all up, and powered it back on. The screen still pops, though not as violently or loudly. This one is a head scr…

Now available with new caps and clean 

If it's just a dusting, that'll make things so much smoother. I disassembled it just in case I need to get to the analogue board. The entire enclosure was caked in heavy amounts of…

i found that if leave them on for a few hours, that noise stops.   seem they do that due to moisture and dust build up. if you can blast them out with the air compressor that woul…

Great score for that price! It's always nice, in my opinion, to save a little Macintosh from doom.

Dandu said: For the BIOS, the chip is on a support, and a colleague can help me to dump directly the content, i will try that next week. Click to expand... Awesome inform…

Here is the thread. It's still pending, the work is simple enough to do, but with his move, wthww has been pretty short on personal time and connectivity to make the fixes.

I don't know if they're prone like the early iMacs, but it's definitely an known issue. Probably needs an analog board recap.

So today a friend of mine came in with a big and beige PowerMac. It powers on and works, but the screen and picture tend to pop and go out. Are these models prone to flyback failur…

For the BIOS, the chip is on a support, and a colleague can help me to dump directly the content, i will try that next week.

Yesterday i spotted an LC III for sale, was only 10 euros, but advised only for spares. Already have one of those, but too cheap not to call the owner. The LC was complete, and n…

General DTK question: has anybody looked at operating systems other than Mac OS X on them? Windows 7, 8.1U1 or 10TP would probably do really well on this thing, especially if the P…

As mentioned above, the first board is a Rev 7 RFI motherboard used in the Apple II+.  The second board looks like an earlier Rev 4 motherboard that was probably used in an Apple I…

In re piracy links: Please don't. especially Mac OS X itself and OS X-era software. All of that stuff is stuff you know is actively being developed, and most of it's still activel…

Your best bet truly is to image the drive that came with it (unless you also got whatever installation media Apple shipped with it) and then put a new drive in to install some othe…

I deffinatley have a copy of that around (i'm not going to post a link here as per the rules though)

Thanks haplain! It's supposed to be build 8F1111. It was once very popular, but like almost every torrent I know, it died many years ago. Back then, I don't think people saw the hi…

I'm fairly confident that I have the correct version of 10.4.3 for Intel on my NAS LaCie... I'll report back.

Like Bear said, the top is an Apple II+ board, the bottom is an Apple II. The boards are nearly identical, it is the ROM and the date tag that tell you but its a late model Apple I…

Sherry Haibara said: Unfortunately, 10.4.1 is extremely finicky regarding the supported hardware: the Intel GMA900 and GMA950 chips are effectively the only GPUs supported wi…

markyb86 said: Are you trying PC graphics cards or Mac? Click to expand... I have tested with classic PC card (old and new) and graphic card from Mac Pro (who works on PC…

The first one is a II+ board. The bottom one has the characteristics of a II board, but some went into II+es so without seeing more details I don't think anybody can say that it de…

Unfortunately, 10.4.1 is extremely finicky regarding the supported hardware: the Intel GMA900 and GMA950 chips are effectively the only GPUs supported with graphics acceleration.  …

Hi guys I was hoping someone could help ID a few motherboards, these are two separate boards I am looking at and I want to make sure they are Apple II and not Apple II+ motherboar…

I honestly believe that running old macs with bad caps can lead to permanent damage. I could very well be wrong, but why take the risk?