Just got a 3400c but haven't dug into one for awhile and haven't opened this one up yet - need a power adapter to test it out before I go taking it apart. Is th…
Advanced filters
Source 68kMLA
I've been tinkering with my beige G3 running 9.2.2 as of late and discovered it is having some issues with its floppy drive. Specifically, whenever I eject a fl…
Hello. I'm looking for some info regarding my Plus. Seems to me that mine is facing that video dropout problem: after running for 10 minutes (sometimes less) th…
I have a portable that's been in my garage storage for about 15 years. I just had the battery rebuilt with new cells, and that seems fine. However, the Conner 4…
Hey guys Just a quick question. I have a PowerBook 180 I just received and if the battery is plugged into the machine when the AC adapter is connected it will n…
Hi wonder if anyone can help. I have a Powerbook 540c that was in full working order. Unfortunately the screen appears to have developed a fault. I was using th…
Hmmmrmph I thought i was nearly there. A 68k torrent client? yup. I followed the directions on this site http://www.btfaq.com/serve/cache/11.html to make a rude…
My PowerBook 170 has developed a bit of a screen problem. It displays gibberish unless I keep adjusting it. Eventually the screen will get to be OK but sometime…
Can someone shed some light on this? About 5 minutes ago(from the time this thread is posted) I got the error/sad mac. What happened?
I have made myself a nearly perfect Mac Plus out of a dead one with help from a dead 512. I had a couple of strange Ram issues which are discussed here. Just wh…
Hi all! I have a dead blue Clamshell iBook lying around that I'd like to rescue. When turned on, it chimes, and shows the question mark. Nothing wrong until now…
Hi! I had a Plus with a dead CRT, and a 512 with a dead mainboard. I thought of building a working Plus out of those two dead bodies, since I read that upgradin…
Hey Folks I have a Classic II, who's harddrive seems to have problems. Since some days now, the harddrive spins up, and immediately starts getting slower again …
I have one coming in the mail. It "powers on but that's it" I am praying it is as simple as a OS reinstall, I hope it doesn't need a new HD. I plan on putting 8…
Hot off of eBay for about $70 is a lovely, beat-down 'Book supposedly fresh out of gov't service. Two broken hinges, cracks in the lower case, and cracked adhes…
Hey guys, can someone help me enable Quartz Extreme on my PCI Radeon 7000 WHILE still being able to use my AGP card? I need to use both because this quicksilver…
Hi everyone. I have a Powerbook 2400 with a few problems. I wonder if any of you knowledgeable people can help me out? My machine works pretty well. It has a NU…
This SE/30 seems to have had its hard drive removed in favor of a 270MB 3.5" MO Drive accessed from the rear. Its in horrible shape but this just struck me as i…
Just an FYI, the link in the post writing window that links to how to use bbcode redirects to the main page of the 68kMLA Wiki that has no mention of bbcode wha…
So, about 5 years late, my iMac 333 is finally running Panther! However...there is a slight (big) problem.... The internal 24x notebook CD-ROM drive, well, lets…
Which pretty much means two colour classics. I paid through the nose for them, but that's why I drag my arse to work every day... I plan to harvest my LC 575 bo…
I'm trying to get my Apple 300e external CDROM player to work with my SE running OS 6.0.8 I know the 300e works with OS 7 but the specs tell me it will go back …
Alright, here´s another one. Two years ago I got myself one of these very rare Apple Tape Backup 40SC drives. Took it home, powered it up, inserted a tape - com…
Lombard 400 mhz with Dvd drive. Works but only once in a blue moon. Has trouble starting up. Pioneer DRM-602X
I just got a "new" floppy drive, but it makes grinding noises and won't read disks. I put a new floppy in and it mounted, but failed on erasure. Should I take t…
Hi All, I've been delving around in open firmware on my Pismo to see if I can control the internal fan, or at least set a better temp. for it to come on at. In …
So as you may know, I've managed to source a Sonnet G4 upgrade CPU for my Beigey, which means that I am now of course very interested in getting Leopard install…
I've been trying to watch my anime (yea yea) and over the ensuing months these dad gum files are of such high quality that they're making my mac hiccup. Especia…
I just got myself a Pismo (poke around conquests ), and my only problem with it is that the battery is flat as a board. It shows up as empty and fully charged; …
My sister-in-law is going to be giving me her old Gateway laptop on monday. I am not sure what the specs are, but it's supposed to be a pretty decent machine. A…
If it's impossible to find a piece of software you're looking for, and it's no longer for sale, how do you feel about finding it, or serial numbers, in the unde…
I took apart my Mac SE FDHD because I wasn't getting a picture, reattached the video board because it fell off, and then I heard an odd hissing noise from the c…
Most of my Macs have dead batteries... This neat little control panel fixes the most serious problem, even on Mac Classics connected to a MacIP network. http://…
Hi Guys: I have a Pismo and a Powerbook 1400c that I'd like to get replacement (bigger) hard drives for. What should I look for? I don't want to just get a gene…
Hi, I've a trouble on my external disk drive (model #M0131) in my MacPlus. It normally reads and writes all 800k floppy disks, but is not able to eject them any…
I´m using mac for 12 years now, but today I got an really new "bug". My machine is an 9600 with Sonnet 800MHz and 1GB Ram and OS 9.1. My mac reserves about 840M…
now this ere emac i got my hands on has a problem ( doesnt it always ?) it works fine other for the fact that it spits out any cd i put in there orginal or cd-r…
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/PowerLogix/PFZGX10001M/ OtherWorld Computing is selling 1ghz G3 ZIF upgrades. 8-o
I cannot remove the top of the IIsi that I picked up at a recycling event earlier this summer. About a month ago I powered it up and gave it a disk. Upon ejecti…
I have a question about my Maxtor 7120SR (external) HD... This 120MB drive has been working perfectly in an external case using an external terminator. I usuall…
I received a MacBook to repair from a customer. Being a used laptop, it had the password from the previous owner still on the unit. So far I have tried going in…
Well, I've found issue number two; the pismo seems to be fine with DVDs, but it refuses to do anything with CDs, kinda obliterating my hopes of Jaguar. Has anyb…
i recently acquired an awesome 128k 1984 macintosh in great condition with keyboard + mouse The unit does not power up however, and i was wondering if this coul…
first car thats going to be a running project. as far as i know, it's a 65 and i'm picking it up next week!! gonna be a fun project!! ;D ;D
It took up the entire screen beeping with a countdown to meltdown. at max volume I unpluged the quadra and I will nuke over the HD with A/UX. It did this in the…
Hi guys. I just picked up this beaut for less than 10% it's original price. It came with the system, power adapter (brick on a leash), monitor IIc, RF modulator…
I ask this on behalf of my uncle, who needs this drive fixed by the evening... He's got a CD-ROM stuck in his slot-loading CD drive (without a paper clip eject …
I have over 20 AIO G3s, maybe 25. At least 5 arc, probably more. By arc I mean that every several seconds the screen pops violently and you can hear an arc goin…