hi, I'm a PC. I used to be a Mac though. I grew up with Macs. my dad owned an SE and had internet access since basically I was born (if you can really call late 80s/early 90s real…

Are there any DIP switches on the card that need adjusting, or have you tried adjusting the backside cache speed using CPU Director? JB

grats! Id love to find one myself one day Click to expand... It is surprising what you can find by posting an ad for 'unwanted macs, will pickup' Over the past year I have fou…

I've been running this 8500 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 processor for years. I've had no issues with it and I've been quite satisfied. I've rigged this machine with 768MB of memory, …

Do you have capacitors for LCs?

I'm experiencing Déja Vu again

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

Hi guys, I recently got a very nice iMac G4 (17" 1.25GHz/USB 2.0 model). It works fine - but, when I start it up, it makes a strange sound. It makes the normal startup bong, and …

grats! Id love to find one myself one day

Free Macs are always worth every penny no matter what condition!

To be honest(yes, I know my opinion does not enter into anything) I think the forum is fine the way it is. We do not need extra crap to load it down. It is nice and fast and fine.

so no discussion will happen, since the mods cant make coherent or on topic post most of the time wouldn't it have been easier to just say no?

Who said anything about you getting to discuss it? All changes made to the forum are discussed by the moderation team... My personal view on the matter is that it'll probably stay…

Possibly... it will have to be discussed once we've upgraded. Click to expand... Excellent. So we get to discuss features which are added, but not features which are removed.

Scored a working iMac G5 from my employer, but need to recap the power supply and motherboard before I dare to use it much. Got several others which aren't powering up at all, but …

Well on ebay I sold my G5 for 750.00+35.00 shipping.

That last paragraph is key, and very good news for me, who has a IIfx to get up and running soon.

Make sure you installed the batteries correctly and they're the type that are supposed to be soldered. If I were you, I would install 3.6 V battery holders so you don't have to bo…

I recapped both of my IIx systems and the IIx spare motherboard, they are reliable now. Not realy that many capacitors (or values) needed.

Possibly... it will have to be discussed once we've upgraded.

Hey tl, phpBB 3.0.6 adds quick reply-- are you going to enable it here?

As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof Click to expand... Well that's a good thing anyway, as they are over 20 years old!

Surface mount caps can leak from underneath and sometimes you wont see the goo until you remove them. Click to expand... 9 out of 10 times i hear that i think people are mistak…

If you've got an SE there's about a 50/50 chance of having one or the other from my observations. The Samsungs are rare in Classics and Pluses/pre-Pluses. As I mentioned in my stic…

PSU is a refurb I purchases as initially I thought it was faulty. As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof