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Hi guys, I am the proud owner of a Lombard and a PDQ. Sadly, the PDQ had snapped hinges when I bought it(which they're famous for, so not entirely unexpected), but weirdly so did the Lombard. As I'm unable to find replacements, and I'd rather not destroy a working machine to fix another, I was...

Hi guys, I wanted to stick a flashed 7800GS into my Powermac G5 AGP, but it needs molex power. Do I just need to run a long splitter from the DVD drive, or is there a hidden power port on the motherboard somewhere?

Hi guys, I recently acquired a Powerbook Duo 230, and it seems to be dead. When I plug in the power supply and try to turn it on, nothing happens. The main battery hasn't leaked and I used my known good Powerbook G3 PSU, which has the right voltage and more than enough amperage to power it. I...

Hi guys, Today I picked up a Powerbook 520c in great shape. The only thing wrong with it is a broken charger cable (which I'll fix sometime in the next few weeks) and a missing hinge cover. It seems like somebody used it on a different one on which the hinge cover had broken thanks to a broken...

Hi, My powerbook 100 has an issue where it only shows a dark screen, with a snowflake like glitch in the middle (picture included). The PSU is a known good one, as it powers my Powerbook 150 just fine, so it's probably dead caps. Which part of the machine should I have a look at first?

Hi, I have recently aquired this nearly mint Powerbook 180, but the display is having errors(See the included picture in the thread). It's not the display cable or the actual lcd itself, as the amount of lines varies every time I try to power it on, so some caps on the display controller board...

Hi guys, I have this Powermac G5 sitting around that I want to make a bit more useful. Currently it is running 10.3.9, but I want to either install 10.5.8 or linux. Now here's the issue: I don't have easy access to dvds and none of the USB thumbdrives I own seem to work with OpenFirmware (they...

Hi guys, I just bought a powerbook 180 but it came without a charger. Since an original is either super expensive or expensive to ship where I live, and a Sony Psone brick which has the right specs(7,5 Volts, 2 amps, right polarity) isn't, I was wondering if anyone has any experience using it...

Hi guys, I have this XFX 7800gs 256mb AGP which I want to flash to make it work in my 1.25ghz DP MDD. It has the correct chip revision, but it is quite an obscure card and I have never seen anybody else mention it. Can I just use one of the modded roms from The Mac Elite?

Right. I may have done something incredibly stupid. After inserting an usb thumbdrive into my imac g4, it crashed. It wouldn't bong after that, so I thought, why not press the PMU reset button. Which I did. Twice. Once about 20 seconds, because I didn't know what the results coud be. It now will...

Hi, I just bought a slightly parted out imac g4 online. It was missing a PSU, drive cage and heatsink. I have aquired these items, but now I need the screws to mount them. I have sourced most of them, but I still need the long ones which are used to mount the dome to the bottom case, and the...

Hi guys, A couple weeks ago I bought a powerbook 3400c. The only problems it had? A couple bad capacitors, which I can fix I think, and the plastics that were completely desintegrating in my hands. The palmrest had broke in two, and the screen hinge standoffs had snapped off so badly that there...

Hi guys, A few weeks ago I bought a damaged ibook g3 clamshell tangerine. The display was wrecked and it had cracks in the back of the display housing. The seller did provide a new screen, plus an appropriate lvds-cable, because the display he gave me was an IBM display an the display in the...