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Quicksilver turned into broken engine. — #5

You're not kidding when you say "broken engine"... sounds like a spun bearing in a V6 engine. Diagnose it like a broken engine then. Open the case wide open, start the machine up …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by iMac600 Tue, 26 May 2009 - 14:21

Quicksilver turned into broken engine. — #3

You've got something in the fan… I wouldn't worry that much, since you can hear the startup chime. What's going on, apart from the noise? Does the computer boot? A QUicksilver case…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by superpantoufle Tue, 26 May 2009 - 08:48

Quicksilver turned into broken engine. — #1

Well, I was working in OS 9, it crashed and then I heard this horrid Mechanical Fail Noise. I unplugged it. I plug it back in, and it is the WORST failure sound I ever heard. htt…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by System7 Tue, 26 May 2009 - 00:43

Softwindows 2 68k — #21

Hi everyone around! I now have some time again to continue my quest for Softwindows-2-68k (if it exists). As I already said in above post, I want to try to contact one of the devel…
68kMLA 68k by Grex Sun, 24 May 2009 - 20:52

Options for replacing an early Li-Ion main battery — #5

Thank you all. This is very helpful. The gist of it in my judgment is that the re-celling of a 2400c battery would be slightly speculative, but worth the price of speculation in t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Wed, 20 May 2009 - 18:49

Options for replacing an early Li-Ion main battery — #4

Best I can tell the controller boards are all custom but the heart of the intelligence is in chips that can be custom or commercial parts. The intelligent battery controller in th…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by wally Wed, 20 May 2009 - 18:06

Options for replacing an early Li-Ion main battery — #3

You might also want to search this forum for Wally's posts on this subject. He's done the most thorough experimentation and research of anyone I know. I'll briefly share my experie…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Wed, 20 May 2009 - 05:04

Options for replacing an early Li-Ion main battery — #1

A question has been troubling me of late. As many of us know, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find main batteries for the first PowerBooks taking Li-Ion batteries: the 24…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Sun, 17 May 2009 - 21:50

What the heck happened??? — #43

Nope, I was using FireFox. In the future, I will use utilities to keep tabs on the disk.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Gil Mon, 11 May 2009 - 17:28

What the heck happened??? — #42

Even if the file system was corrupted, you can still backup the data. This only means that the computer was having a hard time trying to find the necessary files it needed to acce…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by phreakout Mon, 11 May 2009 - 17:25

What the heck happened??? — #41

It's hard to say what exactly caused your iBook's hard drive to stop responding, but I'd say it was a corrupt file system. Depending on how long it was that you used the system an…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Gil Mon, 11 May 2009 - 15:24
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