Bought a Flower Power iMac G3 that turned out to have a G4 upgrade inside.
It started out as a Snow G3 400 but over time has had many parts added/swapped out including the casing
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Today, my Mystic G4's power supply started making an out-of-the-ordinary noise instead of the typical. With the unusual noise, the case slightly vibrates as well. I could tell it w…
68kMLAHardwareby Performa6360Sat, 13 Mar 2010 - 21:49
So I replaced the power board in my 128k and I am now getting Sad Mac 040002 at bootup. From what I can gather there is some bad memory on the motherboard that causes this. Does an…
68kMLATroubleshootingby QuadramanSat, 13 Mar 2010 - 16:39
I took apart my Macintosh Portable this evening to make a count of the different capacitors I'll be needing to replace as part of the standard "holy crap this is old I need to repl…
68kMLATroubleshootingby PataterSat, 13 Mar 2010 - 05:37
There's 512MB of Ram (4 sticks) in the 9600 I just got but I can't find anything on the Chipmunk site that corresponds to the chip markings. They're Sonnet sticks but the Sonnet l…
68kMLATroubleshootingby mac2geezerSat, 13 Mar 2010 - 04:34
I recently got a Newton 2100 and love it. The screen size, battery life, backlight, and handwriting recognition are all amazing. The only problem is that I seem to be facing a boot…
The machine:
B&W G3 (Rev B)
The upgrade:
PowerLogix G3 1.1GHz
The software:
Mac OS 9.2.2
CPU Director 1.5f6 (application)
CPU Director INIT 2.0b1 (extension)
The …
In a box of parts, I have a 16MHz 68882 in a socket on what I think is a right angle LCPDS card. It is a small device, shaped rather like an LCPDS network card, but that could just…
Hello Macintosh fans,
My name is Emiel, I am from Holland (somewhere in Europe).
The first time a have worked with a Mac was in 1987 at the graphic and printing school. I don't k…
I've had such rotten luck with getting a working LC motherboard, that if this doesn't work, nothing will.
I call this a super conquest for me, even at $25. :beige:
68kMLAHardwareby olePigeonFri, 12 Mar 2010 - 00:54
Tempest and I made an agreement for him to send me 2 broken Mac II's (one somewhat gutted) in exchange for repair and recap of his IIfx logic board. I basically paid to have the s…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 20:13
Scooped up this one today. Has all floppies and documentation that go with the 6100 DOS card. Now all I need is the actual card and angle adapter for my 6100 DOS compatible. :-/
68kMLASoftwareby QuadramanThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 17:42
Hello collectors:
I have recently acquired an SE with a Radius Accelerator 16 installed. However, it is the two-floppy model with no data, and I understand that to access the ful…
I recently received an old 400mhz blue and white g3 from someone and intended to use if for some pre-OSX stuff I have. I managed to get it to start up, and was able to boot from th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby infinitymbThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 15:51
OK who here has snapped the neck of a CRT during a repair attempt? Raise your hand! lol
My first classic Mac, an SE. I did this a few years ago. SNAP! I was bummed. Well I fo…
In other words, has anybody got a 6500 or a 6500 PSU lying around who could dig one out and post all the voltages and wattage for each for me?
I need to adapt an ATX PSU to run th…
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniThu, 11 Mar 2010 - 03:05
My newest conquested LC 475 displays some strange problems. It refuses to power up, but with different working power supplies (one from my LC III, which works fine, and one from my…