Recent content by Durosity

This is where my knowledge becomes less valuable.. you’ll likely find others car help more in this area. I mean I can often find faults.. but it just takes lots of faffing around 🤣 Good. It’s handy to have alternatives to test things with. It’s incredibly difficult to fix something if you...

So on Friday had a little bit of a swap with @mg.man. I’m now the proud owner of a IIc. Of course this has the problem of breaking my “only ever buy Macintosh items because if not you’ll start buying every bloody vintage computer related thing you can find and end up a divorced hoarder...

That's amazing, thank you so much.

It is. Basically everything of this era is compatible with that monitor. Good so that rules that out. So again that suggests the Iicx is at least partially working. Realistically we're either looking at an issue with the BCGM0322, or a NuBus issue with the Iicx. Since the display does...

I’ve found the plugins, but I’ve not found anything about the book.. you wouldn’t happen to have a link to information about it, would you?

That Zalman cooler is.. cool!

I assume you don’t know anyone who could test the card/motherboard with another system do you? Where do you live?

Nah I know from experience it won’t boot without caps… well not without a soft boot modification. Also do you know for sure this other IIcx Board is good? It’s plausible it could have another similar issue.

That at least suggests the Mac is working, although it’s possible there’s a NuBus issue. I assume you can’t test the card on another Mac either?

I will try that! Thank you!

Ahh that makes sense! Is there any way I can work around it?

I'm trying to trace a power issue on a Quadra 800 (Wombat) motherboard where I think I have a 5v short to ground. Or at least I did.. continuity between pins 2/3/4 to ground on the power supply connector. That was until I realised my fully working Q800 does that too.. and so does my Iici. So...

I wouldn't trust any AI answer when it comes to vintage stuff like this. It'll often spew a lot of hallucinated garbage because the topic is niche and it really doesn't have any training on said topics. Do you have an alternative graphics card you can test it with? Just because the screen...