It seems just disassembling and reassembling all the parts somehow got it back up and running.
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Strong evidence of bad solder joins on a connector somewhere.
Auto suppliers are probably a good place to look for O-rings, too. Anything rated to survive life inside a car's engine bay should have no problems with the heat of a G5.
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68kMLATroubleshootingby iMac600Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 05:40
You can make an adapter to hook the drive to a regular SCSI & power cable, but I've never heard of anyone actually doing that.
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MicroMac sold an adapt…
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniSun, 13 Dec 2009 - 05:16
You can make an adapter to hook the drive to a regular SCSI & power cable, but I've never heard of anyone actually doing that.
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Yes. Find yourself a slow SCSI CD drive (say, 2x or 4x, max), and it should work. If you encounter a driver problem, the "CD Sunrise" driver works well with many third-party drives…
68kMLATroubleshootingby tomlee59Sun, 13 Dec 2009 - 04:18
Merry Christmas to all! And to all a new mac under the tree!
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The Portable has a few of oddities. It's basically a low power 16MHz CMOS MAC SE. It requires more juice to spin up the HD than the AC adapter can supply, so it needs a charged bat…
Kinda makes the DP500 I just picked up for it a little redundant
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Renderbox for say, MP3 encoding or video encoding? I know it's a slower machine, but....
68kMLAHardwareby ChristopherSun, 13 Dec 2009 - 03:01
Okay. I've reassembled the SE/30 and did a voltage measurement just as JDW mentioned. I am getting between 5.00V and 5.01V DC through the floppy port. The SE/30 is powered on, s…
68kMLAHardwareby phreakoutSat, 12 Dec 2009 - 23:43
Cheers, compadre.
You got two of those for 27$?!
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AU$30 each (~US$27)
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But yeah, who's complaining? }
One's going to re…
Nope, with the superdrive removed, the mac fired back up. that made no sense to me.
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This makes perfect sense if the Superdrive is pulling more power than the…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 18:16
I'm fairly certain that "whoop-whoop-whoop" and "flup-flup-flup" or "whup-whup-whup" are all best efforts at describing the same thing: Power supply in self-protect mode. A current…
68kMLATroubleshootingby iMac600Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 18:05
Well, i've found and documented some extensions that can supposedly push the Wings card right over its boundaries into 640x480 territory. The downside is that on a G3 processor it …
So Leik can these work in PPC as well?
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68kMLAHardwareby olePigeonSat, 12 Dec 2009 - 17:37
Bunsen...Have you taken your pills?
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Very thin ice...
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*Ducks*
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Not that thin, it was a joke.
I vented . …
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniSat, 12 Dec 2009 - 16:06