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  1. Garrett B

    5300ce LCD Hunt... Nothing is Working!

    I've been trying to source a replacement panel for my 5300ce for around 6 months now. I've tried five (no joke) panels from China, and they all display horizontal lines like I have pictured. No discernable image ever appears. The panels themselves are a little questionable looking, but I find it...
  2. Garrett B

    Help Creating Bootable Mac OS 9 CD

    Well, I’m stumped and have spent way too long and tossed way too many CD-Rs in attempt at this. All I want to do is get an OS9 disc bootable (shouldn’t be that hard, right)? I have a 12” PowerBook G4 I’m using as my burner device, running 10.4. For images, I’m using an OEM 9.2.1 install CD, with...
  3. Garrett B

    Mystery IIsi that chimes, but has no video, and won't boot!

    I've been scratching my head on this one. It's a later rev. IIsi logic board (made in Ireland) that I just finished recapping. After an ultrasonic clean, the board looks really quite nice physically. Now, it will power up, but I've noticed the chime is delayed by a second or two compared to...
  4. Garrett B

    PowerBook 5300ce LCD Panel Part Number

    Hi all, wondering if anyone knows the part number for the 800x600 panel used in the 5300ce? Someone at some point swapped mine for a 640x480 panel and of course it doesn’t work how it should. It’s odd because the rest of the machine is still a ce model. Any tips would be appreciated!
  5. Garrett B

    Sonnet Presto 040 for IIci - Bad Accelerator?

    I recently acquired a 40MHz Presto 040 designed for the IIci cache slot. Problem is, with the "Presto" extension loaded in System 7.5, I get a bus error during startup. I have a IIvx, and that machine behaves similarly. I did get it to boot into 7.5 at one point, but the system crashed when...
  6. Garrett B

    Garrett's Finds

    Yesterday I picked up an extremely clean Mac Classic. It was apparently part of a computer lab, but doesn't look to have been used all that much. Pictures make it look a little yellow, but the case is not darkened hardly at all. Time to see what kind of surprises await inside... I...
  7. Garrett B

    Macintosh Classic Logic Board Revival

    I bought this computer a few months ago, and have been gradually working toward a full repair. Unfortunately, this computer was the victim of a Maxell battery explosion (didn't know it was a common issue when I bought it). Regardless, I've made a lot of progress from where things started. Here...
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