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Macintosh 512+ Oddities... Any ideas? — #5

Well I made some adjustments, including as suggested to the voltage, and here are the results. 1. When powering up the Mac from a Cold Start (such as turning it on after being …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by iMac600 Tue, 1 Sep 2009 - 11:56

Macintosh 512+ Oddities... Any ideas? — #4

Bad geometry can either be caused by the power supply or by the little magnets on the neck of the CRT. Since those magnets are a pain to work with, I'd suggest a power supply repai…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Scott Baret Tue, 1 Sep 2009 - 03:30

Macintosh 512+ Oddities... Any ideas? — #3

Everything you describe sounds like voltage problems. Your Mac is out of whack. Get yourself a multimeter and go to work, starting with Dr. Lee's excellent notes. Then get yourself…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 - 17:09

Macintosh 512+ Oddities... Any ideas? — #2

2. The raster seems to be a little out of whack. I'm assuming the CRT itself needs adjustment, Click to expand... It could even be the power supply.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dog Cow Mon, 31 Aug 2009 - 17:03

Macintosh 512+ Oddities... Any ideas? — #1

These issues aren't so major, but i'm after some ideas as to why they may be occuring. 1. When powering up the Mac from a Cold Start (such as turning it on after being switched of…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by iMac600 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 - 05:54

Massive quest for everything PowerBook 2400c — #12

So this quest kind of died out this winter. I haven't really found too much more info, but I have an update. My 2400c lives again! My Mac OS 9 installation (or something :?: ) wa…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MrMacintosh Sun, 30 Aug 2009 - 18:43

Help me save a Mac SE? — #13

"Lonely Mac Syndrome" was a phrase I coined, tongue-in-cheek, to describe this machine's odd behavior (also in initial post). Essentially, as long as I was working in a program, e…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 17:16

Help me save a Mac SE? — #12

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? …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 03:48

Help me save a Mac SE? — #11

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 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 01:32

Help me save a Mac SE? — #10

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 - 18:02

Help me save a Mac SE? — #9

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 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by LCGuy Sun, 23 Aug 2009 - 07:44

Help me save a Mac SE? — #8

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 - 23:23

Help me save a Mac SE? — #7

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 - 18:52

Help me save a Mac SE? — #6

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 - 18:26

Help me save a Mac SE? — #5

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 - 18:16

Rip Van Winkle SE — #22

Wow, I had no idea that the box would be in that nice of a condition. 8-o
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JRL Fri, 21 Aug 2009 - 00:39

Rip Van Winkle SE — #21

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by joshc Thu, 20 Aug 2009 - 19:47

Rip Van Winkle SE — #20

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by johnboy Thu, 20 Aug 2009 - 17:54

Help me save a Mac SE? — #4

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 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 - 03:39

Help me save a Mac SE? — #3

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by cseals3 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 - 02:35

A couple keyboards and something even better — #18

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MrMacPlus Tue, 18 Aug 2009 - 15:48

A couple keyboards and something even better — #16

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 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MrMacPlus Tue, 18 Aug 2009 - 03:01

RetroBrighted SE/30 System — #11

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JDW Tue, 18 Aug 2009 - 01:41
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