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One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #1

Hello, I'm new to the forum and Macintosh. I recently bought a non working SE/30 on eBay that came with a nice surprise in the form of a (hopefully working) network card. -Turned…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Ozymandias Tue, 19 May 2015 - 04:47

Classic II hard drive broken — #4

Depending on the stiction, I find it can take more than a light rap on the side of the machine. In my Classic II's case, I had to brace it with one hand and hit it as hard as I cou…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Paralel Sun, 17 May 2015 - 03:03

Classic II hard drive broken — #3

If stiction is the problem, a light tap on the side of the hard drive can temporarily help. Not always, but it's happened before. If it does get the drive going, don't turn it off …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Juliet Elysa Fri, 15 May 2015 - 07:07

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #9

pretty sure the differences between the ROM 1 and 2 versions are not important.  If you decide you want to be particular, thats totally cool,    but if you are really trying to fix…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Fri, 15 May 2015 - 03:21

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #8

uniserver said: BLOB is definitely retired from reverse engineering and schematics! hasn't worked on a board in over two years. But I called him up and asked em very nicely a…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by 360alaska Fri, 15 May 2015 - 03:06

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #6

How about Quadra 840av schematics? I have not one, not two, but THREE dead boards I'd like to get working someday. And anyone asks, yes, they've been recapped and washed. There's…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by CC_333 Fri, 15 May 2015 - 01:20

Classic II hard drive broken — #2

maybe its got the stiction? maybe you could try this? https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=263 other wise you can get a SCSI2SD for it.  I would say the Classic II is w…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:25

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #3

as far as i know all he has is a PC,   He gets boards in and does the R/E and then sends them back. The Color Classic Mainboard and the Classic II main board are ones i sent em,  …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:20

Classic II hard drive broken — #1

I have a recapped classic 2 mobo with an 80mb hard-drive. I plugged in the hard drive, turned the mac on and booted from the system 7 disk utilities floppy. Once the reformatting w…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by bman12three4 Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:05

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #1

BLOB is definitely retired from reverse engineering and schematics! hasn't worked on a board in over two years. But I called him up and asked em very nicely and he said that he wou…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 17:02

PowerMac G3 All-in-One, iMac G3 - Same Symptoms — #17

It's by no means a Lisa or 128k level of special to me, so I'll more than likely go for the LCD transplant route. Make the machine so much lighter, easier to move, and a tad more p…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by notcrazy_iminsane Tue, 12 May 2015 - 16:55

PowerMac G3 All-in-One, iMac G3 - Same Symptoms — #16

Mmmmm at this point in time, a machine has to be fairly special to warrant me bothering with a flyback replacement. If one were to fail on either of my iMacs for instance, I dare s…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Schmoburger Tue, 12 May 2015 - 16:00

please look at this sadmac error code!! — #35

uniserver said: change the rest,   i personally do not like sockets.  if you do the ram right once its done, no need for sockets. they cause more issue then good. Click t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by gooddi Tue, 12 May 2015 - 14:59

please look at this sadmac error code!! — #33

change the rest,   i personally do not like sockets.  if you do the ram right once its done, no need for sockets. they cause more issue then good.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Tue, 12 May 2015 - 01:41

PowerMac G3 All-in-One, iMac G3 - Same Symptoms — #15

Guess this one may face a CRT to LCD transplant at some point in the future. It looks like it was upgraded quite a bit, so I don't want to lose that. I just don't like fidgeting wi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by notcrazy_iminsane Mon, 11 May 2015 - 20:19
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