Gary, Can you post a photo of the screen so we can make determine whether this is spot on to what Trag said? In the mean time, I'll verify this with my own SE/30, even if it's no…

Thanks JDW for reply: To simply my request for answer re focus problem, I didn't state full story. My SE 30 motherboard failed in May, and I purchased a used replacement from "Ne…

Hey, my iMac G4 gave up the ghost for some reason and I'm not about to fix it right now so I'm putting the 80GB drive inside my quicksilver which already has 2 hard drives. I thoug…

Your advice was spot on! I removed the battery and actually booted without it once and then put the battery back in and booted again. It booted fine both times. This one has a n…

Pulling the logic board and replacing caps should not affect your screen focus at all. I should know since I have yanked out my motherboard and put it back in dozens of times with…

After excellent dealings with Trag, I replaced (paid technician) to have caps replaced with tantalums. Fixed problem, but now focus is off a bit - but too uncomfortable to view. T…

Can you double check whether you get a mouse arrow in the top left-hand corner of the screen or if you even get a startup tone when you turn it on? Another culprit could be that t…

I agree with JDW. Worst case, a new wire to replace the trace would be installed if the original pads and trace are deteriorated beyond salvaging. Are you going to perform the re…

Should be fixed now...

I'm quoting JDW from an older post he had on AppleFritter: "I have also read about replacing the bourns chip (RP2), but I don't have one handy and I honestly do not see the logic …

Or the Gameboy Colour...

After examining your photos, it is clear that your analog board is in good shape. But it is also clear your motherboard is in bad shape, especially in the area of C9. You not onl…

The guideline for games and PDAs is ten-years-old as of the start of the competition, so you'd be a little shy with the GBA... developing something for the original GB would defini…

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Hm, I am thinking of doing something with my Gameboy Advance (32 bit 16MHz ARM, original release date March 2001). Is that retro enough? I mean I have a couple of original 8 bit …

TheNixer, It sounds like you have a problem with the network filter (RP2) on the SE/30 logic board. So you are correct. Referring this info to the website you linked in your las…

From what I've read (never tried it) those two-slot adapters will often only recognise a single card when used in a Mac.

Here are some pictures of the boards and the ram. Let me know what you think. The last two pics look like some of the caps are bad. http://yfrog.com/izpc27011550j http://yfrog.co…

I'm wondering if I'm out of luck on this SE/30. It's a liberation that I knew didn't work but I thought I'd try my luck anyway. The great SE/30 repair reference (http://www.biwa.…

Thanks. I have finally figured it out with a little bit of help: http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md025.shtml :beige:

There is such thing as a SCSI SSD so I believe it will be easy to find a ATA one. Another kludge you can use is:Getting a 2 Compactflash enclosure that goes to EIDE Put two 32GB C…

Thank You. Well, everything's going well, except that I can't get off this metal shelf from the back side of the 7100. Two clips are holding it. I don't want to break it up. Cli…

First thought: mosey over to cubeowner.com and browse the video card forum. Second, that's the way a GPU that's been running hot seems to die. Unless you had a fan on that 7500, it…

Beware. Some of the iMac G4 (later models before switching to the G5 processor) used DDR RAM on both the very bottom and inside. So make sure you have a model that uses SDRAM PC1…