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I did! It was a hack job of electrical tape and poor soldering but it works! How did you rebuild yours? What does it look like? I don't have a functioning main battery either but it still keeps the time.

Thanks for that!

So far so good. I used pliers to undo the little spit welds. Then used the same pliers to re-straighten the metal. Now to get the batteries and rig up an enclosure out of electrical tape. Then I should be able to do a quick solder to reconnect everything.

True, but I'm going for as fully restored as I can. Looks like these are simple VL2330 batteries. I can likely desolder the contacts and replace them with new ones. Still, the clock only goes up to 2019 before looping back around to 1920 :LOL:

Now the question is, how do I replace it? Thanks again for the assist!

Found it! Thanks!

Looks like my 540c doesn’t have one. I do t even see the outline for one as shown in the manual. The manual bag led this. This is what I see Checked the other side for good measure.

Thank you! I’ll definitely bookmark that manual.

Hi all, I've tried searching here, in Google, and even tried taking my PowerBook 540c apart as much as I am comfortable, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer. Does it have a dedicated clock battery or does it keep time with AC and laptop battery power? If it does have a dedicated clock...

@volvo242gt I'll see if I can find an appropriate quicktime plugin test page. Either that, or I'll have to create one.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get the Quicktime Plugin set up with Netscape 2.02 so I can watch videos on Cornica. I'm running System 7.6.1 (68k), have installed Quicktime 4.0.3, Netscape 2.0.2, and moved the Quicktime Plugin to the appropriate folder. Unfortunately, the plugin doesn't seem to...

Thanks! That resolved it! So the issue was caused by multiple games installing different and unmatched versions of QuickTime components?

Hi there, I’m fairly new with system 7 and have just encountered this error after installing a bunch of FMV games. What does it mean and how to I resolve it? Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up @3lectr1cPPC. I'll stay away from batteryrefill. I appreciate the suggestions.

Thanks @Paralel and @3lectr1cPPC. This is really helpful. For the hinges I'm going with this method. For the hard drive, I have a ZuluSCSI on order. http://zuluscsi.com/ That's pretty interesting in that you can present multiple image files on the SD card as a hard disk or CD-ROM drive all at...