6:53 PM The iMac is reassembled and seems to be taking well to the new CRT. The logic board eventually came good after a few resets (and after properly attaching all screws, go fi…

Well, it looks like the fault is in the PAV board itself. Not dead, but still very weak. Solution? The "donor" system arrived today. It's an Indigo G3, case is pretty scuffed but…

Yeah, I have first hand experience with a broken tube.. Still alive to this day.

Yes, when not discharged a CRT can hold up to 27,000 volts. However, there's also an even bigger risk of the CRT neck (which is VERY fragile!) being cracked or broken if handled in…

I hope this doesn't seem like thread hijacking. It's kinda related... What are the risks of disassmbling an iMac down to the CRT? I'm always heard that CRTs are oh-so-dangerous be…

iMac600, if you need parts, let me know. I've got a iMac DV SE with 500 Mhz G3, Firewire 400, that currently has a bad P.A.V. Board I need to get rid of. It's either that or I've…

...is knock, knock, knockin' on heavens door. Since i've owned it, predating even my involvement on these forums, it's been a loveable old machine with CRT problems. The display f…

Sounds like the hard drive.

Holy crap that's a loud and scary noise! It's definitely a fan or a drive.

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 …

I see nothing in the fan.

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…

8-o Did it eat your chips? ;D

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…

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…

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…

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…

http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/08jh/rebuilt-laptop-batteries.html http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/08jh/inside-powerbook-battery.html

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…

Nope, I was using FireFox. In the future, I will use utilities to keep tabs on the disk.

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…

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…

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…

1. I think you must mean a 2100. 2. The language is in rom. I don't think it can be changed. (I could be wrong, but see #3). 3. Sell it on eBay Germany (Austria & Switzer…

Hi there guys. I just got a Newton 1200 but the problem is it's in german. Is there any way i can change the language?