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1400 G3 upgrade questions — #20

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?
68kMLA Hardware by fmwolf Sat, 24 Jul 2010 - 16:28

Sad Mac 040002 — #11

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 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 - 03:14

Sad Mac 040002 — #10

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by oldappleguy Fri, 23 Jul 2010 - 01:13

Sad Mac 040002 — #9

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 - 17:43

MacOS 8.6 on "Sawtooth" G4 — #62

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by khmann Mon, 19 Jul 2010 - 20:35

upgrading Apple Colour Classic — #27

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…
68kMLA Hardware by galaga Sun, 18 Jul 2010 - 02:26

A Naked and Nasty Macintosh Portable — #3

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
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Osgeld Sun, 18 Jul 2010 - 01:34

A Naked and Nasty Macintosh Portable — #2

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Patater Sun, 18 Jul 2010 - 01:20

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #19

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…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 16:47

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #18

You know, yes original 601 ppc's look awesome.. but yeah.. was remounting the heatsink on my new 9150 board today and cracked the chip- why? because it doesn't actally touch the bo…
68kMLA Hardware by defor Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 06:20

IT BURNS! — #23

i had an imac slot load 500mhz fail from heat. I never could fix it so i trashed it. it would power up just fine, but then after a little bit, you could see the picture pulling in…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sun, 11 Jul 2010 - 05:16

IT BURNS! — #22

I've blown one PAV assembly in a G3/600 from excessive heat. The machine still worked, but it took a while to build up the required charge for a successful illumination of the tube…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 14:06

IT BURNS! — #21

The Rev A-D (233mhz-333mhz) had the internal fans. The ones with 350mhz or higher don't have fans. Having a 333mhz and 500mhz indigo the only problem I found was burning discs. I …
68kMLA Hardware by mac-man6 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 07:20

IT BURNS! — #20

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:35

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #28

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:02

LC520 accelerator — #19

left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic / Someone here might even want it Click to expand... viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13785
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Fri, 9 Jul 2010 - 13:01

LC520 accelerator — #18

Yea, it is unfortunate that they released the Color Classic at the same time as the LC III, but they based it upon the much slower LC II! What is even worse, the Color Classic II t…
68kMLA 68k by yuhong Thu, 8 Jul 2010 - 22:06

MacOS 8.6 on "Sawtooth" G4 — #61

Got the Mac OS ROM file, been really busy at work (where the Sawtooth project is underway), so I dropped it into a 1st gen slot-loading iMac DV at home (also a special-case machine…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by khmann Thu, 8 Jul 2010 - 21:52

LC520 accelerator — #17

Your left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic. It's not a huge leap in power: 16MHz '030 --> 25MHz, and 10MB RAM limit --> 36MB, but …
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Wed, 7 Jul 2010 - 23:16
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