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One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #19

This is great work! A much major improvement! Why was the scsi chip removed? There is a fuse (F2 and F3 right there!) that sometimes blows and makes your SCSI bus look dead. Chec…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Elfen Thu, 4 Jun 2015 - 04:10

Powerbook 1400 cs lcd repair — #12

If he hasn't got one, I know I do. My (Procrastination Plagued Project) Pile-o-1400s stretches approx 30" across the bottom of a bookshelf. The limiting factor is the Cracked Lid C…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Wed, 3 Jun 2015 - 22:43

Powerbook 1400 cs lcd repair — #10

I have a spare 1400 active matrix display assembly. I may even have two, I gotta check.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by techknight Wed, 3 Jun 2015 - 21:53

Apple IIgs Text mode doubled — #31

CTRL-RESET doesn't drop me into BASIC. It just restart over again (like a power on) Thanks very much for the explanation Gorgonops. I found a ROM replacement on ebay. I'm gonna tr…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Pitou Wed, 3 Jun 2015 - 14:08

One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #15

Some times, you just got to say "Phucket! It works!" Now that you got it working, you can go back when you are up to it and replace the thick wires with thinner ones.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Elfen Wed, 3 Jun 2015 - 01:56

One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #13

WoW...that's one original soldering technique there! - ive done a bit of heavy jumping on boards, but I rekon you should take off all what you have done, clean the board a few ti…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by falen5 Tue, 2 Jun 2015 - 23:39

One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #11

one time.    lol out of all the SE/30 boards i have recapped,  was the actual scsi chip bad.   but it was the same situation, the pad's metered out good... i flowed on a new scsi c…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Tue, 2 Jun 2015 - 23:06

One more SE/30 saved ! But strange HDD behavior — #9

I'm Back. I tried with two different drives, but as they are old I cannot trust them. So I bought a new one from maccaps.com thus the delay in my answer. Same problem with the n…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Ozymandias Tue, 2 Jun 2015 - 22:25

Quadra 700 Ethernet Woes — #12

I had a Quadra 700 in 2007 I got from the high school I was in at the time. It had a Farallon 10baseT transceiver like one of the ones mentioned here. Had Mac OS 8.1 with Apple Bui…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by QuicksilverMac2001 Sun, 31 May 2015 - 04:23

Apple IIgs Text mode doubled — #30

I think you got it spot on, Gorgonops. With a stuck bit counter, it would not access the ROM properly.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Elfen Fri, 29 May 2015 - 21:22

Wiki is down! — #7

I worked admin years ago.  FreeBSD from the command line.  Then linux from the command prompt.  No GUI yet.   Every time I updated apache, sendmail, you name it, I would break the …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by mraroid Fri, 29 May 2015 - 01:58

Apple IIgs Text mode doubled — #29

Pitou said: I'm not able to get into Applesoft BASIC using ctrl-reset. I also tried running BASIC from a system disk. Click to expand... The "ctrl-reset" is what you use …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Gorgonops Thu, 28 May 2015 - 19:38
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