I enjoyed your lengthy post about the history of/ your history with the machine, which mirrors my own experience (including references to some of the subsequent hardware purchased,…

My RCWW10 page is up. http://conceitedjerk.tripod.com/retro10.html

My understanding is that water was used in the factory for cleaning the boards after assembly, and so that it has to be reasonably safe to use water still. Most likely there will b…

my problem is at C13. i am looking in that general area to see where to scrape exactly with the idea of exposing the correct copper wire. Click to expand... I don't have any SE…

I've decided how I am going to clean the motherboard. I'm going to use Alconox. From their website: (Notice it mentions circuit boards!) http://www.alconox.com/static/section_to…

Hi Jason, I responded to your email a few minutes ago. I see that JDW gave you basically the same advice I did, but in better detail. You didn't mention the reverse polarity pro…

a big thanks to JDW for such a thorough reply. just to be clear i am *not* that dexterous with a soldering tool. in fact, this whole process of cap replacement is new to me. my pr…

I have never "partially recapped" a board and then tested it. So I cannot speak from experience in that regard. But what I can say is that if you have the caps properly oriented …

noidentity, I was able to download the driver today. It is working great on my TT128 at 1680x1050. Thanks again, Mike

i have 220uf 35v for 220uf 16v can i use this ? and the surface pads have come up off the board for one of them. how will i make a good connection now for that capacitor?

I received my replacement capacitors from Trag (thanks, Jeff) and have started to solder this morning. I have three finished, when I decided to put the board back and try it out. O…

The ones from Trag have a thin, red line on the one side. That's the positive side. Cheers, Anders

the tantalum ones are not marked positive or negative. how do i know which end is which ?

yes, can type almost always indicate the negative side, where as tants are marked on the positive side

I'll venture a guess; you've put the capacitor in backwards. The tiny stripe on the capacitor should point towards the "+" on the motherboard. I *think* this is opposite the factor…

I received my replacement capacitors from Trag (thanks, Jeff) and have started to solder this morning. I have three finished, when I decided to put the board back and try it out. O…

chesty i will miss you so! Click to expand... Awww, sorry mate. I can't bear to see you like this. Just sent in my entry. I'll be resurrecting a few Amigas that have been co…

chesty i will miss you so! Click to expand... Awww, sorry mate. I can't bear to see you like this. Just sent in my entry. I'll be resurrecting a few Amigas that have been co…

OS 9 on my 1.25GHz MDD dual G4 screams, even though it is effectively only using one CPU under OS 9.

Actually, the tray loading iMacs required a minimum of PC66 too, exactly the same as the clamshell iBook. It was the slot-load iMacs that required PC100. So yeah, any RAM from you…

Another good option, although not free, is FWB CD-ROM Toolkit. Click to expand... That might work because I have an Apple CD 300i Plus that I'm trying to use. Try using …

Did the 1.42s come as FW400? I've only seen the 1.25s as FW400, though I imagine you could just get the 1.42 out of one of the FW800s and bolt it in. Click to expand... In my c…

My setup works fine on that B&W, I have a Radeon video card in the 66mhz PCI slot (the model with the fan before they started naming them 7000 and took out T&L). I …

There's nothing wrong with a 2-liner. I wouldn't go any further than a 3 though. I cut mine down as such and it seems to work fine.

It's not too much of a worry, I have the hard disk on a sled at the moment that just snaps right into the Power Mac G3, and when I want to do the transfer, I power the system down,…