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Do you have the little clip properly in place?

I've had several Rev 1/A B&W G3s, and honestly never saw an issue with data corruption using different drives (stock and more later larger IDE models), the caveat was to not to run another slave drive with the boot device off the one channel. Which was fine as it comes with two connectors, or...

Also, simple check but make sure the power switch on the back latches down and isn’t faulty

Nice one, thanks for putting it up. Has lots of disassembly guides and common fixes. Love the completely irrelevant "stylised" pictures throughout.

Try 10.5 official before using third-party hacks of PPC 10.6, see if any RAM issues arise here.

There are lots PB100s with degraded displays (pink bloom around where the trackball rests under the LCD causing small fractures in LCD over time. As yours is a good display without this, I'd look for a junk PB100 and retain all the polarizer films etc. and transfer over

RGB wires going to the CRT and yoke, unclip the housings around and reflow/resolder anything going in

Check wires going to the yoke and to analogue board - often all need reflowing

Welcome KMM, it’s not enough to power the Cube even when you switch polarity of the pins. A Cube with an SSD and not using ADC would not draw as many amps but far from half. I’d keep the connector and find a bench mounted PSU as referenced prior to power you Cube.

It would be cool to have a CF booting card in there. However it’s not even Cardbus standard it’s not anything, it’s just enough for wifi communication and nothing else unfortunately.

About the only other card that fits is an Orinoco Silver or Gold PCMCIA wifi card, it's picked up as an Airport device in the slot. I don't think anything else will fit, it's not the full PCMCIA standard or pinout. An ethernet to wifi bridge would provide most needs for modern wireless...

Yes - the film itself has an angle (0, 45, 90 - it's probably 45) and then you often need to rotate the film around to get the correct polarizer alignment - hence buy a larger sheet to compensate for this. Forgot to mention the isopropyl alcohol use is to get the sticky glue off (which stinks...

Sonnet G4s are more "locked" than Apple models, I think you'd have less success trying one.

It looks like vinegar syndrome noting the diagonal striations. I just came across my PB540C with similar distribution/lines seemingly happened overnight. The tutorial is you need to painstakingly remove this adhesive layer, apply lots of isopropyl alcohol onto the bare LCD and experiment with...

That sounds really dodgy (yeah same goes with the toothpicks), maybe the 575 has the same flyback transformer you can switch over. Alternately find a rough M1212 and use your existing monitor as donor for plastics and CRT.

Most Sonnet upgrades are pretty bulletproof (well at least, they were at release but nowadays some are failing with flaky cache but not a common problem), the problem likely lies with your 8100 ... reset PRAM, check PSU voltages, clean all connectors.

Nice fine I'd keep the accelerator you'll never get it again cheap. With this in the Iici it also makes quite a formidable Mac OS 6/7/8 machine.

It just takes one "collector" to infer that an early Mac is more sought after from date codes to artificially inflate their asking price. Other collectors read this then also believe they're on a gold mine as word gets around. I've seen this a lot lately especially on social media. Frankly...

It was Apple’s workhorse dot matrix and over engineered for reliability. They are the cockroaches of printing equipment, much like commercial dot matrix printers that are still used today. I still have the sound of an IW II screeching at 3am stuck in my mind printing off high school assignments...

The Quadra PSU is pretty robust, crack it open and have a look. If never opened it will probably be caked with dust. Suspect the issue won't be leaking caps but another component like a voltage regulator. I don't think they used a paper style RIFA cap was more polypropolene by thie stage.