Recent content by GRudolf94

This site is a shithole. I'm out of here.

If the RAM wasn't being refreshed fast enough it'd lose data. But that would be a rather extreme case. Odd ROM behavior depending on strap settings?

Way more common in the PC world, I think. Hardly a board from the era when CPUs started having big VRDs (halfway thru the Athlon's lifespan) left with good caps, most were failing quite early when I'd only started tinkering with junk - boards little over 3 or 4 years old at that point.

I am finding that that era of video card is not aging well. Lots of RAM failures (to be fair, several were already dying of that years ago), and people carelessly shipping them around resulting in cracked solder balls/failed pads and the like. Not sure what your basic check comprised, but I've...

SR1 and SR2 are the shunts proper. Laptop batteries (and other smart/managed batteries) often have a heated fuse that the BMS has control over. If the pack goes outside spec beyond a given margin, the BMS can blow that fuse on command to isolate the cells. Now, I've never poked at a G3 pack, but...

🤨 yeah right

Now to run a test print of this and see how badly I screwed up the guesstimated measurements for the contact block area

You can easily avoid seeing it. Scroll on by. Go do your own thing. There is a meme that could go on here but the tone isn't really appropriate for this forum. Is it really? Or are you just coopting someone else's hobby and telling them how to go about it?

There is no correlation between knowing or not how to write software and understanding or not what the AI is doing. Like I said before, it is a force multiplier, and force can have a positive or negative magnitude. You, OTOH, have shown nothing but jumping on a bandwagon you don't really...

Nope, as Apple didn't publish Manufacturer Part Numbers for the components, and it's not self-evident on the crystal. The ERS for the RTC does provide us with a clue of what it may be, though:

That can be inferred. Take the advice, sternly-worded as it may be, and think some more before posting. You can do better. You have nothing to gain by trying to be edgy, especially so in a technical forum. Quite the opposite really, it's cringy and doesn't foster any goodwill towards you. Aim...

I'm assuming you're also not able to look for the 1Hz tick signal on RTC pin 2, then? FWIW, measuring directly at a crystal can be hit or miss (although it'll generally work fine it could be that the scope probe will load the oscillator circuit down and skew or stop it). Also, I'm not sure how...

I like flush cutters to snip them above the base. My reasoning is that twisting is no different from pushing the caps from side to side, which puts a load on the pads that they were not meant to support, and the compromised bonding between copper and fiberglass caused by the corrosion could make...

Excellent - glad that was of help!

Plague caps tend to vent, not leak (which I guess is much better as it doesn't do a lot of corrosion damage) - but yeah, they're why eMacs are dropping like flies, and why early iMac G5s were troublesome even within their original intended service lives.