Oops! It just "burped" at me - a short, low (not bong) beep, and the cursor locked up, so still a problem with "Lonely Mac" syndrome. Maybe memory as Phreakout suggested earlier? …

SUCCESS!! Thanks all (Phreakout, Mac128, LCGuy) for your advice, here's how I finally got things to work. Using a 7.0.1 Disk Tools disk, modified with Ramdisk 3.2.3, I booted the …

I have some used PAV boards if you're interested. I have fixed an iMac before by replacing this board.

I came back from vacation and my iMac G3 450 DV is dead. No powerup at all. Nothing. Any suggestions on what to do look for? I think there may have been a lightning strike near…

using an external drive. I have considered that, but doing so would partly take away the "all-in-one," compact nature of the machine - one of its attractions to me...But you did pi…

There's several removable storage drives available for SCSI Macs on the used market, such as Zip, Jaz, MO, SyQuest, Bernoulli, etc drives. If you're really loaded there's also the …

Thanks for the tips on hard drives in the SE, Mac128. I guess that it hadn't occurred to me that they were the first with internal hard drives. Makes sense that it probably require…

I haven't seen any reference to DiskManager Mac - is this freely available software or retail? Click to expand... Honestly, I have no idea. I'm not really into HD Macs. The mos…

Mac128: Thanks for your reply, I will pursue further. I have eyeballed the caps as carefully as I can and don't see any obvious leaks so I agree with you. I have carefully cleane…

Okay, so I haven't given up yet... Got to thinking that the one constant throughout all of my problems was the System 6.0.8 image that I had been using. Different disks, some with…

Wow, I had no idea that the box would be in that nice of a condition. 8-o

It's a shame you are not local, otherwise I would have bought it from you. A 160+ mile trip is a bit too far for an SE, seeing as I already have one as well. Good luck with the sa…

For your information, I have now put the SE on ebay: ebay.co.uk item number 110426302841 the full reference being http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1…

And trying the 20 or the 4gb only gives me Sad Mac "0000000F" "00000002." Click to expand... According to Pina, "0000000F" "00000003." the problem is: "The internal hard drive …

73s: Thanks much for your reply and advice. Memory seems okay, 0F/02 only showed up when I changed drives - some kind of conflict? Tried resetting PRAM, still showed up. Tried cl…

I also didn't suggest an early Intel iMac or Mac Pro. Click to expand... You didn't make that distinction, so lets go for a Quadra 610 with built in 486SX.

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

Small+cheap+video+mac says 660AV to me, or 6100/G3/AV

Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that). Click to expand... The problem "seems" t…

Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that).

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

It arrived today and It works, battery holds some form of a charge and it's in nice condition. :O And it's time for some Nixification. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! Already have …

splotchy outcome on some projects Click to expand... My 3) When using the gel form... addresses that. And if you use the liquid form with 3% H202, you won't ever have splotchi…