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Thanks for video. I suspect it's a combination of two things, failing backlight (CCFL tube) and need to clean and reseat the video cable (both on the motherboard and the PCB it plugs into on the front panel below the LCD). There is also another connector at the back of the LCD. Only one cap...

Hi, Are you referring to the Apple AudioVision 14 display? Check for dry solder joints first around the flyback and condition of flyback

Practice on many others PCBs before going near the good stuff ... but you buzz off the corrosion on the metal without going overboard, then try to reflow with flux

I'm finding a cheap handheld engraving pen (or Dremel with pointy file attachment but it's a bit unwieldy) if used delicately is working well to remove corrosion from chips that don't take solder. Others may not agree but I found those fibreglass pens are a waste of money and painful...

Yeah toasty GPUs were made for a good time, not a long time in that era :) I've a slew of 9700/9800 GPUs that show life and hope to get at least one good working one day. Another was the Voodoo 3, which makes the cards discussed look like icy poles, everyone I came across the PCB was visibly...

Anything Pioneer and IDE is the best replacement, DVR-106 and above work amazingly well and cheap to find.

4. Pull any additional RAM installed 5. Really look it over for any corrosion under magnification 6. Clean the dual CPU connector with Deoxit - this includes both the CPU and the motherboard 7. You can boot the board almost bare with just the LCD, CPU and motherboard connected and a small...

And it's brilliant, one of the best an affordable upgrades you could get for an Amiga 1200. There are PiStorm variants for most other Amiga models below the A1200.

Weak laser, choice of media type and also check the belts inside if loose/stretched.

Great post, thanks for detailing everything. I own a Quadro4 980GXL and it came from a house fire, but that didn't stop it it's been going strong in a Pentium-III based system for years. Yet to recap it. Love the card, and confirm every single Radeon 9700, 9800 I've come across has never worked.

Go the Booti for ease of use, the software is more than adequate. Again you won't exactly be running a stopwatch noticing any data throughput reduction on an Apple II era computer using modern solutions like these. If you want the best speed and software (similar to Booti), go a CFFA3000.

You can use any old chunky screw, the ones used on PC cases do the job. Alternately the 3.5" HD will slide in happily there if you don't move things too much.

Ease of use = Booti, and performance would be fine.

I like to set my Macs up for a unique purpose - eg. pro audio, pro video, PC/Mac hybrid, server ... Reckon yours 9600 MP could be a killer 2D/Photoshop/DTP machine, even better if you source something like a Wacom tablet, TwinTurbo graphics card. Maybe have a G3 card on hand for games?

So good to see the 060 that never was before PPC came into the fray - can't wait to see benchmarks and things like gaming FPS. Understand there won't be too many examples in the field, with full 060 prices being so whacked now - even beyond the reach of Amiga users I feel!

The Radeon 9x00 (9700 and 9800 mostly) are highly prone to over heating and/or the card can flex over time resulting in dry joints sometimes in the layers of the PCB itself or under the GPU core. I'd try to gently flex the card during use (wear gloves!) to see if you can elicit any change...

Is that the smaller connector? Are the pins all the way in, sometimes they get pushed out.

You're on the right track, it's the SSD not conforming to the older IDE standards usually the later model it is the more issues you can have. Also found similar issues with an SSD on an iMac G3 500; OS 9 was downright weird, slow startup and eventually data corruption took place. OS X was...

Love how "industrial" CF cards don't seem to be better quality parts just have a fixed over removable setting yet charged thrice the amount for them :) Never worked my iPod 5G out over FW, as it works without a hitch; can only presume something up with the controller IC if anyone ever had more...

Is the sound amplified on the 3.5" audio out? Go for simple: clean the 3.5" jack to ensure you can dislodge the internal switch, check continuity of this. Slot loading optical drive: fancy for the time but often known to fail, these models didn't have any belts, I'd seek a replacement.