Recent content by volvo242gt

And, a lot of the real IIfx machines with the supposedly quiet power supply are just as loud as the Astec powered II and IIx machines. My fx, which still has its original Sony CR-45 sounds as loud as my old stealth fx did with the original Astec II supply.

Nice.

Back in the day, the point was to be able to use somewhat current software, while not having to buy a new Mac. At the time, a B&W G3 was still in the $400-$500 range, so it made sense to hack a newer OS onto a PCI PowerMac or even a Nubus PowerMac (or 68k Mac with PPC upgrade). Now, there's no...

Necrobump... If you wanted to use MSN Messenger back in 2003, it required 9.2.2 to work. So, on my old 7500/100, which had been upgraded with a 604e from a 7300/200, I acquired the necessary install media, downloaded OS 9 Helper, then was able to apply the necessary patches to install 9.2.2 on...

Next, take it to 9.1, then use OS 9 Helper to upgrade it to 9.2.2.

Another option would be to keep the BlueSCSI powered down until the IIci starts booting off the hard drive. Plug the power adapter for the BlueSCSI in after you see the Welcome To Macintosh splash screen. Then, it'll mount when the Finder loads.

Try doing a command-option-shift-delete to maybe force it to boot off the hard drive?

It is the 1908FP. Used it as the main monitor on my old Mac Pro, as well as on the G4 Digital Audio that it replaced.

Is the other power supply also an LC-series power supply? Reason I ask is that, for now, you could use butt connectors to splice on the harness plug from the dead power supply. That would fix the issue with the connector, at least for testing purposes. With respect to the adapter, turn on 3...

A working 230MB drive isn't that rare. Out of the 10-15 I've had, only four really had issues. One was DOA, another had random media errors (one that came with a IIcx in 2013), a third had its controller board get fried in 2023, and the fourth was a parts drive for the one with the bad...

Congrats. I suspect that's part of the issue with the original board that was in the IIci I sold recently.

Just got a bunch of stuff from @Mk.558 this evening. Another Quadra 650, which will be replacing the damaged Quadra 650, since this one works and doesn't need more than just swapping the extra RAM, the larger hard drive, auto-inject floppy, and other goodies I'd tossed at the damaged machine...

Just get any pizzabox LC machine. Swap the board in. Boom, done. The original LC machines are still pretty cheap.

Went through this myself a few years back on my last IIci. Wound up eventually just grabbing another board. Something failed on the board, causing the slots to be dead, even with a brand new 74ALS240 chip installed at UH1.

When the computer is powered up with the bucket off, try wiggling the harness between the logic board and the analog board. If the computer provides the normal startup "bip", and starts running, then you need a new harness. I had an SE in 2022 that would randomly not boot. The difference is...