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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.solder joints apparently. i guess not all of them stuck down. -
alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.i was in fact SUCCESSFUL! now i just need to figure out what i need to modify in the bootrom for both the 1MB of L2 cache and 128MB of...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.the confusing part is I did manage to install these correctly, yet it still doesn't pass
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.turns out there is in fact an address line that likely is not connected, A16 on the 128Kx36 chips is on pin 50 although that is a...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.so i managed to get the RAM upgrade to 128MB working, for a total of 640MB on the system. sadly i am still stuck on the cache failing to...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread Apple Color Display M1212 - No picture after recap.turns out the cutoff voltage is not present, gotta fix that. there were a couple of leaking capacitors on the board which caused some...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread Apple Color Display M1212 - No picture after recap.speak of the devil, i am working on one of these too... i just recapped most of it (didn't have all capacitors on hand) and this happens...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread PowerMac G4 MDD won't turn on after clean shutdown..i had to recap the 400W power supply of my G4 MDD and now it's been running perfectly on and off for about 2 years, hooked up to a CRT...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.OS X definitely does the checks, and you can check in system profiler if something is amiss or has failed.
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.well, tested the computer some more and it does work, but disables the L2 cache for whatever reason. maybe lack of address lines or...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.welp, got the new chips in and well... it still isn't passing the mac os 9 built in memory test for cache. starting to think its either...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.could be the chips...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.might need some assistance. @LightBulbFun @dosdude1 have you two ever attempted this before?
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.decided to just only have the RAM upgraded to 64MB because i can't bother finding the right decoupling caps that are supposed to work...
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alectrona6400 replied to the thread upgrading the ibook clamshell's L2 cache to 1MB.well... i just tested the motherboard and now it is giving me a rather distorted startup chime with no further activity. i suspect this...
