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    LC575 Analog Board Troubleshooting

    Just so this doesn't languish forever with no resolution... Per above recommendations, on both units, I replaced the optocouplers and the TDA devices. On the unit that I blew by not connecting the HV lead to the CRT, this had no efect, something else is at issue. I checked all the diodes and...
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    Macintosh classic AB woes

    Here's an Ebay listing for the TDA4605s.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/291471780717 I just received an order from them. It seems less likely these would be at fault in your case since a bad one would most likely result in your supply not switching at all, meaning no output.  
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    LC575 Analog Board Troubleshooting

    Well, I might be closer to 'ending' up somewhere, closing in on 70.  Thanks for the words of encouragement. I've got a set of the TDAs on order, will probably get some optocouplers while I'm at it. I'm gonna treat this as a learning experience, don't really 'need' the LC. It's just that it's the...
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    LC575 Analog Board Troubleshooting

    Thanks techKnight. I actually did check the HOT after the first failure and it seems to be OK, obviously under no load. The badness must have reached farther back so that the switched mode supply no longer does any switching. That's about all I know. After two bonehead moves on these guys I'm...
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    LC575 Analog Board Troubleshooting

    Hello all I have now managed to "brick" two analog boards in the process of doing recaps. I've had good luck with all my other recaps but these seem jinxed. The first came up properly (logic board and hard drive) but I had forgotten to connect the high tension led to the CRT. This bodged...
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    Reverse Engineering the Macintosh SE PCB & Custom Chips for 1:1 reproduction

    Is anyone familiar with the bootloading process following reset? The 68000 data sheet shows going to address 0 following reset, which is RAM, but ROM, which presumably is where the loader resides, starts at 0x40,000.   And Kai, most of the 68K signals are available on the PDS slot, so...
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    Just getting into Macs a little bit, got 2 SE/30's

    Have you been able to get the Rominator to work yet? I have one in my SE/30 as well. It's a common problem with the Rominator, not sure if it's board thickness or some other alignment issue, but very likely you'll have to play with the positioning of the thing in the rom socket. At least that's...
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    Quadra 700 setup with SCSI2SD v6

    Hi, I have both V5 and V6 versions of SCSI2sd in various systems. I have never had any issues with the V5, but the V6 has always been very sensitive to environmental conditions, specifically ribbon cable condition and noise from the power supply. With those conditions the symptoms were all over...
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    Powerbook 100 power adapter type?

    Hi, not such a long shot after all. Still have all the parts and would be happy to send them your way for shipping costs. No idea what the state of the screen is since I haven't turned it on for many years, but the recapping was done by Charles in Michigan before he went off the rails. All the...
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    Pismo LCD swap

    Have a look at my efforts in that direction.  Might help in your search, although it's been a couple years.
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    AppleColor monitor output 'squashed'

    I just recently fixed one of these, different symptoms than yours. I replaced all the electrolytics on both the main board and neck board. Did not fix the problem. Problem turned out to be bad solder joints on the flyback. Redid all those and it was mostly working. The other problem turned out...
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    Bridge Mac

    Totally agree with Compgeke. I'm using a 7600 for exactly that purpose. It ties into the ethernet network and using the serial ports and Apple's internet bridge s/w ties serial appletalk to that network. Plus you have both SCSI ports and can put in an IDE card for IDE drives. Plus it's easy to...
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    MacCon IIsi SE/30 Not Working. Any Ideas?

    This sounds very similar to a problem I had with an LC575 and both comm slot and pds ethernet cards. The wouldn't be recognized by the Faralon software and caused booting problems. Problem turned out to be the power supply going weak. Re-capped that and everything works. The weak supply took...
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    Powerbook G3 Lombard replacing LCD panel not whole screen

    Just wanted to close this off. I managed to find a replacement cable for the LG panel, as well as a "new" correct LG Phillips panel, both right here in the US, in Texas.  Installed both and that Pismo is bright eyed and bushy tailed again. I now feel like I can replace a Pismo panel in probably...
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    restoring plastics on a Tangerine ibook?

    I used the WD-40 on a Pismo and it worked a treat! Smells for a day or two but really perks it up nicely.
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    iBook G4 - Mac OS 9 "Universal" - 256 colors

    I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the universal install for unsupported Macs necessarily enables 100% of the functionality on any of the machines it will boot on. Some examples being things like Bluetooth which there are no OS9 drivers for. This may well be one of them. Disabling your...
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    GHz TiBook not seeing battery?

    I believe I've come to the root of the problem on this guy. It was really two problems, one of which I was able to correct, the other... The corrected problem was with the DC In board, actually the spring contact within the circular connector. I rooted around in there with a set of tweezers and...
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    GHz TiBook not seeing battery?

    I've cleaned the contacts using an emory stick on the blades followed by lots of contact cleaner. No change in behavior, unfortunately.  But, I did notice that the machine sees both a 45 watt and 65 watt charger as 45 watts. I know it won't charge when using a 45 watt charger, so that explains...
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    GHz TiBook not seeing battery?

    Will do that this afternoon. Checked it out under the microscope and it looked OK...
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    GHz TiBook not seeing battery?

    I just bought a 1GHz titanium, which, although cosmetically challenged, seems to function pretty well. With one exception, of course. It absolutely refuses to run off battery power. I have a working 500MHz VGA and an 867 tibook, so have a couple of batteries to play with. It seems like it can...
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