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SE - Crackling noise and blank screen. — #24

Tragically, Gamba took his own life. Wally learned this sad news from Gamba's sister. She has been keeping his site going, as I understand it, although it is unclear for how much l…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 05:41

Hello all — #1

Hi folks! New to the forum but I've been around Macs since the 128. I still have several vintage Macs in running order and a few that aren't. Included in the collection, Lisa 2/1…
68kMLA 68k by Buickguy Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 05:13

8600 bus error: possible causes — #3

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 03:17

PB 180 resurrection — #25

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself
68kMLA Troubleshooting by benjgvps Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 03:10

new guy — #2

Hello and welcome! Hopefully we can be of assistance.
68kMLA 68k by macgreg Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 02:32

Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #13

The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 01:23

PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY IMAC G3 DV! GRAPHITE — #6

about the only surefire way to tell is to pull it apart and hold the 2 motherboards next to eachother, notice mounting differences and clearance issues
68kMLA PowerPC by Osgeld Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 22:19

Screwy SMART status? — #5

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by NCQU Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 22:07

PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY IMAC G3 DV! GRAPHITE — #5

well i only paid 30 bucks for that mobo do you think its worth doing???? the imac g3 dv graphite that i have is is excellent condition i bought it from the original owner with wa…
68kMLA PowerPC by NCQU Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 21:43

PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY IMAC G3 DV! GRAPHITE — #3

sorry hahah when you say mod the heat sink ........ what would happen if i just used the heat sink from my 400 and used it on the 600? is that possible? or is it in a different loc…
68kMLA PowerPC by NCQU Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 21:09

8600 bus error: possible causes — #2

Extensions Manager is your friend. Disable everything and then add it back in progressively. As a starting point, try turning off Virtual Memory (not just disabling the control pan…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Charlieman Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 21:03

PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY IMAC G3 DV! GRAPHITE — #2

AHHH. Are you like screaming? Check your caps lock man! I have thought of the same thing with my 350mhz. They are not compatible, but you can mod the heatsink to be on top of …
68kMLA PowerPC by Mars478 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 19:44

Lisa 2 Power Supply Pinout? — #2

Lisa Schematics http://lisaem.sunder.net/cgi-bin/bookview2.cgi?zoom=0?page=16?book=6?Go=Go
68kMLA Hardware by applefreak Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 19:24

G3 beige desktop strangeness — #3

You can use ATX on a tower (will fit fine), but I don't think the desktop version can fit a standard ATX supply in the case.
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 18:45

8600 bus error: possible causes — #1

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 18:39

IIfx SCSI — #9

There are a couple 68040 accelerators for the IIfx, along with the Radius Rocket, thats it.
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 18:30

PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY IMAC G3 DV! GRAPHITE — #1

HI I HAVE A IMAC G3 DV AND THE 400 MHZ PROCESSOR JUST ISNT DOING IT FOR ME SO STUPID ME I WENT ON EBAY WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH AND BOUGHT A 600 MHZ IMAC G3 MOTHERBOARD AND I AM HAVING…
68kMLA PowerPC by NCQU Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 18:24

Free iMac G5 — #4

I agree a free mac in any condition is AWESOME!!!!! (all of mine were free )
68kMLA PowerPC by ken27238 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 18:17

G3 beige desktop strangeness — #2

It might be overheating. The original thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink has almost certainly dried out, if it hasn't been renewed. Also check that the heatsink clip is t…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 17:37

IIfx SCSI — #8

LEM says not
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 17:35
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