Recent content by croissantking

All 1400s have 8MB on board, and came with either a 4MB or 8MB factory card in addition to this.

Yes. My factory card is 8MB, so 16MB total is reported when installed. Agree, since swapping ROMs from one board to another did not change the behaviour of the individual boards; i.e. the problem did not move with the ROMs.

If you manage it, do upload the files here. I am quite curious to poke around.

Yep, that’s right. I only have one factory memory card between the two boards so I have to.

Another vote for the 540c - fairly reliable and high spec, plus great industrial design. Crap PSU as @3lectr1cPPC says though, yes. I am a fan of the 140-180 models too but reliability is very poor.

Exactly, I do this and it’s the best method I’ve found.

Yeah. I’m just trying to decide if I should swap EMMs again or if the failure could be with a passive component. It is still putting out 5V on the middle pin, next to the +ve terminal.

It’s probably a failed EMM, right? Can they be so flakey?

Ah bugger - the one I repaired today has died. I fully charged it, then ran the laptop off it until it had discharged and it’s now disappeared again.

Yes, it’s absolutely great to have batteries in these machines. I haven’t fixed the PRAM battery, but I’ve got some VL2330s on order - I’ve built one for my PB1400 so I pretty much know what to do.

So I got another Apple EMM board working with a rebuilt battery pack. I moved an EMM chip from one board to another and it came to life. And even better, EMMpathy was able to correct all errors on the memory chip. Given all the problems people are having restoring these batteries, I think...

Yeah, the hard drives I’ve had that have come with second hand macs either worked out of the box, or didn’t and weren’t repairable.

It’s probably done.

I may try, but I’d rather rebuild the Apple units if possible…

Yeah, not as nice. Also uses smaller cells.