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  1. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    It's been a bit now and my memory is terrible... but I _think_ it was booting to a solid screen and not going any further...
  2. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    I was having issues with it refusing to boot after I added a third expansion card. Caps may not necessarily have been the issue since CUDA is so finicky on these machines sometimes, but everything is working fine since the re-cap and fighting CUDA. No idea on the values of the cap and resistor...
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    Mac Hut is back

    Ooh Icons... I've been slowly passively collecting some lately because I miss all the fun I had with them growing up. I've considered trying to find a way to catalog them visually to a website without having to manually open them all and screenshot/crop to put on the web...
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    LCD Contrast Issue (NEC/SuperMac)

    I have similar issues on my Dell Ultrasharps when the signal sent to the monitor is higher than it's max refresh rate (it's only 60hz) from my GrandVImage card. I'd check what refresh rate you're feeding the monitor at those resolutions. Might be more than 75? or maybe just between 60 and 75...
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    Interware GrandVimage 24-21s Info Dump

    Hmm I'll have to play with the controls manually. I use the auto generally which seems to mostly work. I don't get flicker or lines, it just makes it washed out and gray at the higher refreshes for me.
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    Interware GrandVimage 24-21s Info Dump

    Huh I'll have to mess with it more. I was using it with a Dell LCD, so I had to fidget around with the "monitor" a lot to get something that worked well on my LCD. I never could get a good 1024x768 resolution because it'd be all washed out seemingly because it was pushing too high a refresh rate...
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    Interware GrandVimage 24-21s Info Dump

    There's also NUBUS and LC versions of these cards in similar configurations. I have the 24-16 NUBUS card, but haven't actually seen an LC one before. I've had issues with my NUBUS card chronicled here. Neat cards for sure for general desktop use. Requires a reboot for resolution switching which...
  8. shadedream

    Cleaning Apple Extended Ketboard II

    Submersing board is a poor idea as others have said. You'd trap water inside the alps switches and corrode the contacts and have a very much less useful keyboard. I do hear about people doing this sort of thing (and recommending it) but IMO it's a horrible idea. If it's just normal dust and...
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    SSD in a LC/Performa 580

    Interesting, I just checked, I have the same StarTech and SinLoon. Neither of them worked in my beige G3 systems. I can't recall if I tested in my 6400 or Q630 though. I have a second of one or the other which is in my G4 cube and working fine there. I was using the Kingston SSDs.
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    IIsi Overclocking - Experiences with NuBus Riser?

    Ahh apparently there's even someone selling them with only 4 pins for oscillators already on amazon for about the same price... might pick them up for when I do my Q700 in case I run into issues over there.
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    IIsi Overclocking - Experiences with NuBus Riser?

    Might have been ideal, but I didn't know where to start trying to find the socket and didn't expect problems only going to 25mhz. Maybe I'll find a different riser at some point that it works with as well.
  12. shadedream

    SSD in a LC/Performa 580

    Interesting, I'd be interested to know which one if you had good results. I tried three different adapters (two were the same make) and they all had issues in newer machines than a 630. I believe I tried one (or an IDE to mSATA adapter?) in my crumbling 630 and had no luck at all.
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    IIsi Overclocking - Experiences with NuBus Riser?

    It actually felt pretty zippy to me comparatively with the overclock. And I'd already tossed the other oscillator and was worried I'd burned one of the pads. Those things, especially the legs on the ground plane, are not easy to get out/clear the vias. I have another IIsi with a damaged logic...
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    SSD in a LC/Performa 580

    It is unlikely that an IDE to SATA adapter will work in the machine anyway. Likely something to do with the way Apple implemented IDE early on not being compatible with how these cheap modern adapters work. The earliest machine I could get one to work reliably in was a G4 cube. My beige G3 sort...
  15. shadedream

    IIsi Overclocking - Experiences with NuBus Riser?

    I apparently got unlucky, mine has visual artifact glitching with my riser in so I run it without one and use a piscsi for ethernet now.
  16. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    Ok I finally got around to replacing the last small capacitor and the caps on the voltage regulator board tonight. I will note that small 10uf 16v cap is tiny. Might be able to use a slightly larger on to make it a little easier. The solid polymer caps are working great in the system so far...
  17. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    That's correct. I see now that I mis-labeled them in the original post. They should be 1500uf 6.3v. I'll see if I can get an admin to edit the post.
  18. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    Yep, I was chatting about it on discord. I looked up the specifications of the Nichicons on one of mine and they were a low impedance model which Mouser still sells (UPW series). They probably aren't in need of a recap, but I'll find out when I remove them and figured I'd do them since I did the...
  19. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    There was some leaking underneath a few of the caps, nothing crazy bad that was leaking out onto the board around it yet though. It did have some odd behaviors occasionally before and stopped working after I added the SATA card (probably pushed something over it's limit). It definitely seemed...
  20. shadedream

    Beige PowerMac G3 Capacitor Replacement

    Yeah I bought caps to do my AIO as well. Photo of the voltage regulator doesn't really matter, they're all the same core design and same four caps (at least all of them I have) even if they're different make and slightly different layout.
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