I can't imagine the "heat gun" method (which I've tried to some success on an iBook 800 - nut need to do it again) would actually melt the solder on the BGA array, but rather sligh…

ifixit.com has nice step by step teardown instructions for your machine. There are 2 ways to fix this issue: 1. Remove the logic board entirely from the machine and clean it. 2.…

Who told u the IIGS used a 65802? IIRC the ppc chips have a real 68LC040@33mhz onboard. no software conversion at all. Click to expand... Typo. Had 65802 on the brain. :beige:…

Mostly it is because I have too much clutter in the house and I don't have a good place to set it up. I figured I would let another collector give it a good home, instead of just …

Hmm... I managed to find a PAS 16 without the interface or cable for $5. Should I take it and pray that I can find the interface/cable? Or should I take one of the following? Sup…

I picked them up on Sunday. Someone should go and get the LC II, LC, WGS 6150, Classic, and SE that I didn't have room for; I'm lucky my girlfriend isn't shunning me as it is, and…

Yeah, they're really different beasts - Faulty iBook G4 chip: about ten legs, repaired easily enough - Faulty iBook G3 video chipset: about three hundred, inaccessible I can'…

I just got 80 mins. charge from the formerly dead battery in the PB 180 while running Battery Amnesia (great utility). And that is with all power-saving features turned off, which …

Hey when were you there? I was there on Saturday and saw those items. I thought about picking up the Atari ST, but decided against it.

Who told u the IIGS used a 65802? IIRC the ppc chips have a real 68LC040@33mhz onboard. no software conversion at all. Click to expand... Typo. Had 65802 on the brain. :beige:…

Nice work - hope it goes well!I have a few iBook G3 500MHz's to repair at some point - I don't know why I like the icebooks - I just do Click to expand... The G3 IceBooks use B…

Nice work - hope it goes well!I have a few iBook G3 500MHz's to repair at some point - I don't know why I like the icebooks - I just do Click to expand... The G3 IceBooks use B…

Nice work - hope it goes well! I have a few iBook G3 500MHz's to repair at some point - I don't know why I like the icebooks - I just do

Posting from my phone so I'll keep this simple. The iBook is back from surgery, currently in intensive care but the procedure otherwise appeared to be a success. Just need to keep …

There was software that allowed it to emulate an Apple II but you couldn't run Apple II software without first running that emulation software. So in some ways that made it more li…

Who told u the IIGS used a 65802? IIRC the ppc chips have a real 68LC040@33mhz onboard. no software conversion at all. Click to expand... 68K software on PPC machines runs in a…

If we could only get Houston ComputerWorks to do the same thing. I'm always seeing at least one old Mac in the back due to get chopped.

Will probably attempt the repair today. I have 2 chances to get this right (2 logic boards) but i'd like to get it right the first time around. Although we don't have the fine tip …

I assume ~tl will probably come in later on and back up what I'm saying, but yeah, its not going to happen, as others have said there's no need for it since what applies to one ver…

My iBook has the same problem. I might be tempted to rip it open and re-solder the GPU when I have some time. I've only had it a few weeks before it failed, but during that time I…

I have owned 4 Ti's in my lifetime. Let me tell you those hinges are as weak as they come. When opening the LCD do so from the center so as to minimize the stress on either hinge.…

The current software forum doesn't have enough posting traffic to warrant splitting it up into sub-forums. Like others have said, most system software discussion between System 7 a…

This is a bad idea and a waste of time. Why would we want so many sub-forums? Simply leaving things in the Software forum is fine. There is no need to change how things are being…

A lot of what applies to System 6, 7, 8, or 9 also applies to each other. Additionally, the volume of posts is not that great. I don't think sub-forums are needed.

There's 8088 Corruption Click to expand... Some additional videos are available: * mike1984.tmv wast contributed by Mike Richardson in 2006 Click to expand... :?: