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Figured either that or just replacing it with a screw cap cover from Alibaba. Hoped someone would have a link to somewhere that'll match the color but I can probably find something.

I noticed this afternoon that one of the rubberized covers placed over the bezel screws on my 170 is missing. Beyond parts machines does anyone have a decent source for replacing those?

Fair. It's almost certainly a LiFePO4 then since no changes were made to the board to permit charging.

Not sure how appearance has an impact. I got it from @kastegir last summer.

It was purchased from somebody else on the forum, pretty sure the battery rebuilds for these are custom assembled. Really more a question dependent on the battery chemistry than the battery itself.

One of the common retrofits in Portables is replacing the godawful and usually long-dead lead acid battery with either a purpose-built Li-Ion battery if you want to preserve its portability as a luggable, or a bank of capacitors if you just plan to operate it while plugged into a wall.

Hi! I'm not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere but I have a Portable sporting the modernized lithium ion battery. I know the Portable has some parasitic drain since it doesn't truly turn off and wanted to maximize the service life of its new battery. Do we have any documentation on...

Perfect!

Going to necro this post with an additional question. I have a ROM 1 IIGS and am experiencing this exact problem. Would I be able to bypass the hardware failure by running 3.5" drives, smartports, and/or a Floppy EMU through a Yellowstone card or a similar solution in slot 05 to act in place of...

Brief update - cracked it open this afternoon and since there is 1) a very visible arc 2) no "click pop zoom" when the short resets the image, this may be a rare case where the flyback itself is performing acceptably and the point of failure is cracked solder and dust. Going to thoroughly clean...

I've yet to give it a look in person but the flyback is almost certainly not the only thing wrong with it if it is bad. It's been in storage and at some point in the interim stopped powering on during tests. Can't really say anything with confidence until we get it on the bench.

Oh yeah I don't think the 17" ones are known to be too reliable haha. We've both been looking for something to work on and this seems like it's within our respective skillsets but complex enough to keep things interesting. A CRT has comparably few traces to to test & since it doesn't power on we...

Is... that the Navy SEAL copy pasta saved to Notes

As a fellow G4 AGP owner solid state storage and a better CPU are two of the highest impact improvements that can readily be made. As far as the other stuff I guess it depends on what you plan to use it for but so far everybody's had good recommendations. Mine is still running the 400Mhz but...

Hello all! A friend of mine and I will be restoring her G4 Diamondtron monitor which at the moment does not power on despite being in excellent cosmetic condition. Going to document what we find here over time in case it comes in handy for others. At the moment it still needs to be fetched from...