haplain said: I know where you can get TAM boards. They aren't cheap but they are available.  Click to expand... Hey hap, is that from that place in the Netherlands?  I'…

Don't understand why it would work without the rom!!! Does it have another onboard? - off to bed for me - sure I had to film the teardown - good luck people -

Focus on that rom slot and it might work, you might not even need that rom since the 6500 doesn't but I'm not sure...

gave it a good wash - vinegar/water 50/50, then the usual water and washing up liquid it looks allot better - there is still some green , but allot of the via's that were all gr…

I looked and from what I can see the 6500 board would only need slight modifications, The scsi port is removed and the audio ports are removed and replaced with the small board on …

It is but it has some special pieces for the sound connectors that the 5400/6400 board(s) don't have. 

Yeah; anything from the G3 Snow and Dual USB have the smaller PowerBook PSU Connector. Lets hope for the best here.

techknight said: It is not advisable to use ceramic capacitors in DC-DC switching circuits to replace electrolytics. Tantalum is ok.  - - - - - - - - - - Also, you dont han…

I'm pretty sure that it's a 5500/6500 Logic board

Tonight's project was to get the CC playing nice over Ethernet, which then turned into installing  and setting up MacTCP and finally after some degree of fiddling and tweaking sett…

thanks haplain - will do the vinegar.........jasus im gonna stink!!

Hello, I'm not sure able acetone. I do know that vinegar will neutralize the acid but not entirely sure about acetone. I would do vinegar and water mixture (50/50) then rinse with…

thanks for the reply haplain. - im going to clean the whole board then recap it. - I read somewhere that when you wash  the board in acetone in stops any futher decay from the …

The card with the heat sink is a Sonnet 400Mhz accelerator. They are quite rare. They came in 300/400/500Mhz. The 500's are really tough to find.  I would clean that ROM slot but …

just had a good look at the main board with my magnifying glass - on the back of the board there is corrosion but I don't see any compoinents missing. Will have to go very very eas…

got it apart lads. - found a great guide online - heres what the bones of this tam looks like - its not good!!! - see the green INSIDE the rom slot -aaarrggghhhhh!!!! - aga…

Nice find! I'm sorry to hear about the corrosion, though. It might be repairable, but in the worst case, if you need a new logic board, I think like 360alaska said, you can get on…

That's the button, If you end up needing a logic board I believe there are a few that will swap in... Also, is that a G3 cache slot accelerator? those are pretty rare!

ok - have to have a go at this thing so - is it true that acetone neutralizes the acid decay? - plan on talking out the board and washing the bejasus out of it with acetone - …

I don't think the TAM is impossible to fix. But I bet the back of the board is a mess.

ah jasus nooooooooooooooo - looking at those pictures I can see green on all the via's under where the battery was - noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

hi 360 alaska took a few pics of the mainboard is the reset button the one outlined with the white line Got a bad scare when I first looked inside this....the harddrive was half…

Sounds like a good candidate for recycling heavily damaged/busted up case plastics using olde school techniques: Cut texture matched flat panel section of case to fit SE's floppy …

Congrats on your TAM find Of course it will probably need caps...Did you try the reset button on the logic board?

what a score................I got me a TAM baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............Oh happy day - The tam is not working..........I know nothing about them. - took off back cover…