For the record, the first Mac to use ATAPI optical drives was the LPX-40/Tanzania motherboard design used in the 4400 and Mac clones.

I had success repairing two of my mac portables with Sad Macs after lengthy board repairs. As for opening the batteries, its been quite some time since I opened one, I used a box …

I had two dead Portable batteries. I wanted to re-cell them, so I attempted opening one with a screwdriver, but that totally messed up and and bent the plastic. I have one remainin…

No, they don't all have working batteries.. yet. I have a whole stack of macs, I have been collecting them for years, due to the fact many that I bought had varying problems with …

If you installed any backwards, that is exactly the problem. You have a lot of Portables. What do you do with them all? Do they all have batteries that work?

Actually i think i know why.. It seems I installed the all the wrong way around... ARG! Why is the painted stripe on SMD caps negative, but positive on tantalums! GO FIGURE!@ WO…

Hi Everyone I've just rebuilt about 12 of my Mac Portable's however I had one issue, when I replaced my some of my portables SMD caps with Tantalums, well 3 of them caught fire! …

You can certainly use DVD-RAM with old 68k Macs... I was doing it for years as a backup medium for my SE/30. You need "DVD-RAM Tune-Up" which is abandonware (and very hard to find…

Yes, trag's caps are great. I need to get some more from him. I am missing one capacitor in order to complete the replacement on my SE/30. I am also missing one capacitor in order …

Thanks to Trag whose handy capacitor kits make it easy to get into fixing up these boards. If it weren't for him, my portables would still be sitting dead in the closet. :beige: …

I posted it on Macintosh Garden some time ago. It should still be there.

I cannot find this driver anywhere and my vimage card is worthless without it (slower than the originally installed 166mhz 603), so would someone here send me the driver, please?

I finished capacitor replacement a few nights ago. Here are some pictures.

That's a very good tip. Though it does require constructing an extra long cable between the logic board and analogue board. It also doesn't help identify more than one bad chip at …

I remember a trick that I tried. With the board out of the case, press a memory chip over the chips on the board one at a time Make sure that the pins only touch the correspondin…

Here's a picture that at least highlights, if not proves my point. An original mid-prodcution 128K logicboard with Apple branded RAM chips. Two of them had to be replaced last year…

the 575 PCB was missing the gnd on the audio } all fix :beige:

Just an update, I used the 8.6 (international) G4 disc on a SawTooth, no issues. I did have some problems previously on a drive that had been formatted by a newer Drive Setup (9.2…

IF i put h/phones i have sound

ok so my 575 pcb come and i have fited it but no sound put the old cc pcb in i have sound 8-o .. i can see the sound go up and down and the top menu flash when the vol is a…

you can also use a solder saturated wick to hot mop the area, its a bit less wasteful and abit less time consuming although your going to have to clean up a ton o flux

I finally got my tools in order and took the time to do some work on this smoking hot babe today. First off, I removed all the nasty caps with my new diagonal cutters. Some of the…

Not sure if this is related, but when modding the Colour Classic to fit a PPC board in it, you have sever one of the wires on the floppy cable to prevent the new PPC board from rea…

do the LCs have the R/C filter network like the older SEs did?

Adding an ICS9178 is also how one converts the Turbo601/66 into a Turbo601/100 (well more like 90 to 96). Click to expand... So, You're the one behind the Turbo601/66 chipping…