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Hi all, I've had the 13" trinitron in to get looked at, there's a slight improvement but still some kind of offset, low contrast and softness. The TV guy said it needs a new line output transformer, but can't source one. Any other opinions on this? considered a re-cap perhaps? n.b. the pink...

I've made a new battery for the portable, using a cylon 3 cell job. Simple to trim the sides and fit to the case. I had the same set up previously but the battery has died due to the time the portable was out of action. Battery is charging (original power adaptor) holds a good ~6.5V but when I...

Hi, my 3400c has started some strange behaviour, the screen backlight will go off and the fan comes on, usually just a few seconds sometimes 30-60s. Most often after start up then less frequently. The screen is still active can just about make out icons, windows etc. Any ideas what's up or...

A few keys are not working on my mac M0487 keyboard, I’ve dismantled and can‘t get any contact between the relevant points on the keyboard membrane. Any advice on a fix? Thanks

Can anyone tell me what’s going on here? iisi with co processor nubus adaptor, the nubus card is a radius gs but it’s around 15mm short of the aperture in the case. Are some cards shorter or is it the nubus adaptor? thanks

Before I order the cells, has anyone had success with this? looks possible going through the threads but not explicitly called out. Have to reset the eprom as Techknight mentions? This is for the M8244G/B M8511 type.

Hi all, been doing some work to resurrect the portable but only getting as far as the flashing ? disk. Non backlit, standard power supply putting out 7.52v, I've recapped the board washed and dried (not oven baked tho) New lead acid battery and fresh 9v. The hard disk was trashed sticky and...

Hi getting a 3400 up and running (240) lovely machine came with a 64MB ram expansion, recent few days it’s be raising an intermittent memory check error on start up and then only using 32MB. anyone have similar experience? wonder if it’s a broken solder connection or a mb connector issue? On...

Recapped the power supply and main board a couple of years ago and all working well, not used for 6months or so went to boot up last week and there was a pop from the psu, I’ve taken it apart and had a clean round no obvious faults, replaced fuse and pop again, any ideas or advice on where to...