My Beige G3 tower started having problems recently, so I figured a re-cap was in order. I didn't find any guide or capacitor list so I decided to make my own for reference as I worked.
Here is a capacitor list for the board and the capacitors I used (I haven't done the tiny 10uf 16v yet...
So I decided to open up my Apple CD300 to get around to recapping it. The drive was working fine previous to opening it, but I discovered this:
Anyone know where I can find some schematics or somehow find the value of that fried diode? Referencing Bruce's images tells me that it's D402. Only...
Picked up the card from yahoo.jp via buyee, it's apparently a Japanese market only card. I've noticed a few issues with the card, firstly the boot screen (it displays a logo for the card) is corrupted/garbled) and if I'm in 256 colors, it tends to corrupt one of the colors on my background...
I can't seem to locate any Mac software for this card anywhere despite the manual mentioning at the very least an extension for preventing deep sleep. Any chance someone has the original CDRom for one of these laying around. I've got it in my Beige G3 tower and it seems to be working for USB but...
I gave in to the inevitable, ordered a bunch of caps and have started learning to re-cap these old boards and clean them up. Unfortunately this board has not been a success. It was... mostly working... before re-capping, I've re-capped the board using the recap-a-mac references, have...
So I've been having some video issues with my color classic and I'm trying to track down the exact cause of the problem. When I acquired the machine a ways back everything was fine. It started with some distortion at the top and bottom corners and the display being overly bright and washed out...