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I've been going through trying to determine the state of a few of my machines recently (all have recapped logic boards), and I've noticed a sporadic oddity when shutting down, and I don't know if it's related to a logic board issue, something to do with the aged HDD or even the PSU. If you look...

In 2009/10, I bought this 1st gen iBook for just £10. The replacement battery cost me 3x the price of the computer and I’ve long since discarded that (a side project may involve buying a replacement - likely dead - battery and rebuilding it, but I digress). Anyway, at the time, I’d noticed the...

I recently picked up a Pismo (400MHz, 512MB RAM) and I'm having issues getting it to connect to my network via Ethernet. On both OS 9 and X, TCP/IP reports a 169.x self-assigned address rather than the 192.168.x I would expect. Running a browser or engaging Network Time does not kick the...

I can’t remember the issue with this board - it may function fine, actually. It’s been fully recapped and cleaned. However, there’s quite a lot of corrosion at the base of the TI chip shown in the centre of the photo. It looks like the corrosion may even be bridging a couple leads.  I’ve tried...

Hello all, The short version: The CC (re-capped) no longer boots. I seek guidance. The long version: I booted my Colour Classic earlier today after about 8 months of non-use and I ran into a series of issues. Let me start by saying that the CC has an LC 550 logic board. Both the logic board...

So, my 8600 has video out as well as in. While I'm familiar with how to capture video coming into the machine, I've got a specific use question about video out. The machine has two video out types: RCA (white, red, yellow) and S-video. Assuming I had the right converter (e.g. RCA to USB...

The mind boggles. Bought a Mac IIci. Plugged it in and turned it on and it blew the ground floor circuit in the house. Tried in different plugs. Same result. Tonight, I recapped the motherboard and PSU, switched the computer on and after a handful of seconds, it blew the electrics in the house...

Hello! So, I recently hastily bid on (and won) a Power Mac 5400 that is exhibiting video issues. I suspect that the analogue board and motherboard need recapping; this solution has generally worked for me so far and resulted in working Mac SE/30s and other compacts. However, does this look like...

I own quite a lot of old Mac software and I occasionally like to go through and image old CDs and DVDs to ensure that they're backed up and available to me wherever I am. There is one disc that has consistently given me loads of trouble, however, and that's Warcraft II (non-BNE version). The...

So, I've just had a go at replacing a white iBook's (600MHz, 12") hard drive with an SD card using an Amazon-purchased IDE to SD adapter. I've done the CompactFlash to IDE job on a PB Bronze Keyboard (that works splendidly). As the SD card I bought has a decent read/write speed, I thought I'd...

I purchased 8x 2MB RAM chips for my Mac IIx from WeLoveMacs and no matter what combination I try, I can't get any of the chips to register. Essentially, any combination outside of the original 8x 1MB configuration leads to the error chimes. I've spent loads of time on various forums and websites...

I get a chime of death every time I boot the Quadra 700 (just randomly started happening). I narrowed it down to a RAM issue. I've tried every variation of chips in each socket (with chips known to work in other machines). Is it possible for the entire array of RAM sockets to cease working...

So, I got myself into a bit of a bind. Everything was going perfectly well with the recap of my SE/30's logic board until I got to the axial caps. A combination of tight fits and too much heat has led to a non-functional motherboard. The symptoms are that the computer boots, but there's no...

Someone is offering to sell me a Wacom Digitizer SD-311e, but it doesn't have the cables for connecting to the Macintosh or power. The power cable seems pretty standard, but I'm unsure what the connection to the Mac looks like. The output on the back of the tablet is RS-232c (9-pin serial), but...

Just curious whether or not 64MB SIMMS are recognised on the 550 logic board or if 36MB (4 + 32) truly is the limit. Thanks!

The answer may be obvious, but I received a non-working Mac Color Classic. I replaced the battery, turned the computer on, hit the power key on the keyboard. Nothing. Cleaned and recapped the motherboard. Nothing. It's the analogue board, perhaps? Will a recap do, or are there perhaps deeper...

After doing a fresh install of System 7.5.5 on my Quadra 700, I've noticed that despite its support of 256 colours on multiple resolutions, certain GUI elements, like the folder icons and the Apple Menu icon are still in simple black & white. Any thoughts as to why and what to do about it...

Has anyone had any luck using the SCSI2SD in a Quadra 700? I have one for my LC III, and it works really well. I'm intrigued by the new, smaller SCSI2SD, but the compatibility list still only includes the LC III and 475 (or the Mac II under System 6). Does the SCSI2SD generally work on other...

I need to replace the internal floppy drive in my recently acquired Quadra 700. Given my lack of success sourcing an auto-loading floppy drive, I'm wondering if it's possible and/or useable to replace the drive with one of the newer manual drives. I wouldn't imagine ejecting a disk would be a...

In OS X, it's easy to swap the Command and Option(Alt) keys if you're using a PC keyboard. Is there a way to do the same on Mac OS 9? I've searched the Internet high and low. I have yet to find a suggested utility or a ResEdit hack to make it work. Any ideas? Thanks!