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    Oh hey, it's another dead IIsi power supply thread

    I was handed a pair of IIsi power supplies, Sony APS-06, to try to fix. One of them was easy to get working again, but the second is being stubborn. It's been fully recapped (including the SMD caps on the daughterboard), and it's producing the 5V standby rail. A known-good IIsi won't power on...
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    Dead DayStar Genesis MP CPU card -- ideas?

    I have a DayStar Genesis MP with the quad CPU card, and it doesn't want to boot. Pressing the power button gets the system to power on, but there's no chime, video, or hard drive activity. The system has a brand new PRAM battery. Swapping the CPU card for another one, like a Sonnet G3...
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    A few Outbound Laptop questions

    1. The keyboard can work either over infrared, or with an attached cable. The keyboard has two ports, an RJ11 (with matching RJ11 on the Outbound itself), and a mini-DIN. What's the pinout of the RJ11 cable? (I'd like to find/make one.) And what's the mini-DIN for? 2. You could get the Laptop...
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    PowerBook 540c screen problems

    I picked up a PowerBook 540c not long ago, and while it seems to boot normally, there's an obvious problem with the screen (see attachment). Has anyone seen this before? My gut says it could be bad caps on the screen's driver board, but I've never encountered this problem before so I can't say...
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    MkLinux DR3 installation errors -- what am I doing wrong?

    I'm trying to get MkLinux DR3 installed on my PowerBook 3400. It's a supported machine, and I can get as far into the install as the point where it formats the partitions. When that's done, just before it's supposed to start copying files, it throws a "mount failed: Invalid Argument" error with...
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