pm 6500 take apart.

[vassilizaitsev]

I've taken mine apart...

Hoping to scavenge for bits [:O] ]'>

The most.... It was a journey, an adventure, taking this machine apart.

You have to move this bit to get at that bit.

The funniest thing....

Well when the 6500 starts up, it makes quite a deep chime, as compared with quadra's I've had.

But why does it make a deep boing?

When taking the 6500 apart, there's a big black bit at the bottom of the case... what is this bit for? what use does it serve?

well it was attatched to the bottom of the case... not by screws, no that would've been too easy, but by, a philips screws thing, not a posi drive, now a hex key no this is different, luckily I had the tools that I needed.

So I get it unscrewed, & then it is only attached by a length of wiring.

It is creepy, what is this thing, is it a black box recorder? will this last severe death thing be recorded? will the apple mac police come round and arrest me?

Well, turns out, it is a hollow plastic box (Not box in the traditional sense but what else to call it?), It's hollow save a screw that holds it together and a speaker at one end!

Is it just an echo box? is this why the 6500 starts up with such a deep chime?

or is this black box a floatation device in case the 6500 is flying through the air and lands in a large body of water perhaps?

It was good fun taking it apart, but it is quite, quite a bizzare casing.

 

[Quadraman]

How many plastic tabs did you break trying to get the covers off?

 

[Temetka]

The big black thing is a subwoofer.

 

[MultiFinder]

The 6400/6500 have a very deep, resounding startup sound (which I happen to love) because the internal speaker assembly (the big box with a speaker at one end that you found) was designed to function as a subwoofer if external speakers are hooked up. The little knob next to the monitor port controls the amount of bass when you hook external speakers to it.

It's for this reason that my 6500 is my stereo. That subwoofer can be pretty kick-ass if you adjust it properly

 

[Maccess]

That motherboard will fit perfectly in a 6200 or 6360 case. You'll need to use a single PCI riser instead of the dualie that it came with.

Unlike the 6400, the 6500 board doesn't need a power supply modification to function in the 6360 case as there's a 3.3V regulator on board.

 

[alk]

Unlike the 6400, the 6500 board doesn't need a power supply modification to function in the 6360 case as there's a 3.3V regulator on board.

Almost right. The 6500 does have a 3.3 V regulator, yes, but it only supplies enough juice to power the 603e CPU. Any more load, and it becomes marginal. I'd suggest that if you want to run L2 cache, an AV system, TV tuner, and PCI cards, you really do need a 6360 PSU.

I suppose you could also roll your own 3.3 V supply, but most people aren't that dedicated.

For more information, just search the web for Takky conversions to Color Classics.

Peace,

Drew