I've successfully recapped the board, installed a new CRT, resoldered the analog board contact points, installed a new HD, cleaned the floppy drive... Everythin…
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I tried to recent find, Radius LeMans GT (nubus) to 7100/80 (with NT G3 240mhz card). I do get picture, but the screen is off, i mean (too bad i have no picture…
I've developed a slight screen glitch (SE/30); the screen's width now slightly grows and shrinks. It's not constant, but it is a bit bothersome. Other than this…
Last week, I bought a powerbook 5300cs that wouldn't power up, according to the owner, for $5 locally. Figured it just needed a new power jack. Turns out pressi…
This isn't vintage but it was a lucky find. Someone moving out of the building I manage tossed a 2009 Macbook in the trash. It looked to be in immaculate condit…
My Mac Classic's screen shrinks and jitters a bit when there's disk access. Lately, the hard drive has been spinning up for a few moments when first powered on,…
Hey, everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I am taking clients who would like to have their SE/30 logic boards recapped. I have all the tools I need to …
Macintosh Bible says only 30-60 minutes but i've heard much longer ?
I want to go through a stack of batteries I have that piled up for my Indigo clamshell iBook but unlike later on in 10.6 and a white Macbook where I can just pl…
The SE/30 which I acquired the other day had next-to-nonexistent volume. I removed the logic board from the machine and took a closer look. There was liquid poo…
. . . evisceration. 8) My DOA CD SC is just about ready to rise from the ashes in a Phoenix-like conversion into an, Intel Inside, Dual Core (Snow White design …
After my trials and tribulations with my "old" SE/30 which refused to acknowledge any SCSI drives, I decided to keep it for spares, and get another one. Thanks …
I haven't seen this discussed before, nor mentioned in my Dead Mac Scrolls book I have an SE/30 that was working just fine stock, but after installing a DayStar…
I've got a PowerBook 540c that I'm having fits with. I have 3 different RAM cards for it: a 32mb card, a 32mb card, and an 8mb card. The 8mb card causes the mac…
So I was spending time one day with my Mac Plus, look away for a little bit, and look back and smoke is billowing out. Instantly pulled the plug and investigate…
Saw this on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Macintosh-Compter-System-Model-LC575-/260949567315?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc1ce6753 The title…
So, as I posted in the Conquests forum, I was able to get an 840AV motherboard working recently, but I notice the specs say this machine has s-video ports. Thes…
What type of adapter do I need to properly hook up a vga lcd to a Mac Mini G4. I ordered what I thought was the correct adapter on Amazon but it don't connect t…
Someone that works for the local dump trashpicked an iMac. I still dont know much about it yet, other than the screen is cracked. But I noticed it started up ve…
hello.. recently i found a powermac g5 Quad. i thought it could be a nice computer, well it is to some extend but i found that it's way more noisy than my older…
Hi all, The other day I bought a non-working Mac Classic off eBay, and it arrived yesterday. All I wanted was the case, so I didn't mind that it wasn't working.…
So, I've got me some odd symptoms. SE with 20 mb internal and 1mb RAM. About two weeks ago some random errors started turning up on the hard disk. Several files…
I decided to buy an Xserve for a website that I am creating. The Xserve has two main purposes which are to, well, act as a server, as well as become an addition…
In storage I have a 20mb hard drive that's never been used. It was one of a bunch of sealed service parts boxes I got from an Apple dealer a few years ago. What…
....That my 5500/250 is alive and well! The transplant was a success. Big thanks to johnklos for the 6500/275 logic board! Pic - (Cell phone... can't find my ca…
The machine in question is a late 2005 2.3GHz Dual core G5 with 6GB of Ram. It keeps doing random KP's after varying intervals of operation. It doesn't always g…
I'm looking at the derriere of my SuperIIsiHack™ and deciding that I'm not going to chop a big rectangular air vent outta' the poor thing as originally planned.…
I've been trying to do something with a MDD that was a little beyond it so I overclocked a 1.42 to 1.5ghz. That wasn't quite enough so I tried for 1.58ghz. Syst…
Hi all, I got a 5200 mobo for peanuts -- intended for a Takky mod. Like I do with any old mobo, I washed it, but still doesn't look that great... Anyway, I've g…
Just once I'd like something to work.... Following Gamba's instructions for installing OS 7.6 on an SE/30 with IIfx ROM. Everything is fine until I get to the p…
So, the hard drive is dead (or it appears that way), which is a pity really. I did however acquire, fairly recently and by sheer accident, a scsi zip 100 drive …
A couple of years ago i part exchanged some Atari floppies and get a Powerbook 5300cs (i have no Atari and really wanted a 5300 instead) The 5300 wasn't in good…
Ok, this is driving me crazy. I just want an accelerated SE/30 with an ethernet card. I have a Diimo 030 accelerator for the se/30 plus another Diimo 030 accele…
Hello! Curious as to whether anyone would happen to know the specifications of the D16 diode next to the power jack...? Kind of a stab in the dark, but it doesn…
Hello! looking for some advice. I have two headless powerbooks, a 140 & 145 that still power up. I also have a 165 with a working screen and no issues. …
Just out of curiosity, I was wondering what folks on the forum consider the successor to the "Outrigger" G3 desktop, or if it marked the end of the line for the…
Toshiba 6.49gb 2.5" IDE/ATA 4200RPM MK6411MAT HDD2143 Laptop Hard Drive TESTED Click to expand... The pic was of the PCB side, so the Apple Logo wasn't visible …
I just picked up another old faithful model. This will be the 2nd or third pismo that I have owned. Now I just need more ram and bigger hd! That, and I have to …
Hey guys, I recently replaced the hard drive in my PowerBook, all is well, I can shut it off & turn it back on again, but I cannot get it to boot if I r…
I was at the local vintage hardware haunt and happened to chat up a fellow who said he had some old mac stuff on a pallet at home. I showed up the next day and …
Rescued my mother's old laptop, Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1645 (512MB RAM, has ATA-HD) mainly to have the ATA-drive for Powerbook. This PC is notoriously -slow- ru…
Hi all, Long time no see! Hopefully this hasn't been covered in detail elsewhere (I did check, but one can never tell). Has anyone got any experience with these…
I am thinking of getting a 1.25GhZ DP CPU for my 867 DP MDD. Has anyone done the hack to change the FSB to 166 from 133, if so how? My RAM is PC3200 so the spee…
. . . I think it's a conquest, but I'm not entirely sure yet . . . but the price seemed OK for 8GB of SCSI SSD . . . Dell 8 GB,Internal (D154H) (SSD) Solid Stat…
Hi, My SE/30 suddenly has the checkerboard pattern. However the machine boots normally and has startup bong too. The pattern does not go away after boot and mak…
Hi, The brightness control bottons are no longer working anymore on my powerbook Duo 280C. I opened up the LCD housing as I though it was probably the brightnes…
This was from a fellow 68kMLAer. It arrived Saturday morning, but I've been really lazy lately That member expressed his desire to have unboxing shots taken onc…
Hey guys Just scored a Macintosh SE FDHD this morning, works like a charm.. even the HDD! ) Problem is I'm just missing the keyboard cable, PRAM battery is dead…
Well, I was digging through my storage in the depths of Lab 2...and guess what I found! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous…
I'm gonna cry a lot . . . . . . if I can't get my baby up and running again. It has been my workhorse for over twelve years now and was the last half of my orig…