Byrd
Well-known member
Hi,
A couple of years ago I was given a Colour Classic "Takky", with a 6500 motherboard, L2 G3 400Mhz, 128MB RAM and CSII ethernet. It was stored away safely, I knew it wasn't booting reliably and assumed it was due to the modification. It looked like it had a fair deal of use in the day.
The other day I stripped it down and found what appears to be an impressively neat hack job with strengthened plastic chassis, good cable routing, additional cooling and it boots to a flashing question mark and a screeching hard disk (obviously dead - a Fujitsu 6.4GB 3.5" drive). It left it like this for an hour or so with no quirks.
Further investigation reveals no 3.3V regulator in place, which according to the LowEndMac Color Classic mod guide, may or may not be essential. Especially not for a 6500 board, but would probably be needed if the CC was upgraded further like this one with G3, full RAM. I'm planning on replacing the dead HD with a 2.5" 80GB hard disk which has < 0.4A rating. Thought about a CF card (too slow for G3) and mSata SSD (it didn't work on other Macs tested), so mechanical HD it is.
Has anyone else a similar Takky, have you encountered any issues with power or regulation when upgraded?
Thanks
JB
A couple of years ago I was given a Colour Classic "Takky", with a 6500 motherboard, L2 G3 400Mhz, 128MB RAM and CSII ethernet. It was stored away safely, I knew it wasn't booting reliably and assumed it was due to the modification. It looked like it had a fair deal of use in the day.
The other day I stripped it down and found what appears to be an impressively neat hack job with strengthened plastic chassis, good cable routing, additional cooling and it boots to a flashing question mark and a screeching hard disk (obviously dead - a Fujitsu 6.4GB 3.5" drive). It left it like this for an hour or so with no quirks.
Further investigation reveals no 3.3V regulator in place, which according to the LowEndMac Color Classic mod guide, may or may not be essential. Especially not for a 6500 board, but would probably be needed if the CC was upgraded further like this one with G3, full RAM. I'm planning on replacing the dead HD with a 2.5" 80GB hard disk which has < 0.4A rating. Thought about a CF card (too slow for G3) and mSata SSD (it didn't work on other Macs tested), so mechanical HD it is.
Has anyone else a similar Takky, have you encountered any issues with power or regulation when upgraded?
Thanks
JB
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