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Hi,  having problem with my Macintosh Plus, it never manages to boot operating system, instead it freezes after a while (like 5 seconds) of reading data. Doesnt matter if I try to boot it from floppy (100% bootable floppy inserted in working internal and external drives) or external hard disk...

ok here's an update, after cleaning it again with IPA, reflowing some solder in caps C6 and C7, reseating memory and ROMs I have some progress: - loud BONG! - no stripes - boots the OS I can fiddle with icons and run apps, but everything is hardly visible. Is my video board bad (the one that...

replaced cracked resistor and 2N3904 in video board, but black screen occurred. After logic board recap and replacing UE8 (was in bad visible condition) all I get is this - horizontal stripes - no bong,  - fans working - hdd is audible  - same pattern appears immediately on screen after...

it makes sense, new caps with full value need more power than before. My power supply wasnt recapped either.

I have the same issue with my Classic II and I doubt it has anything to do with AB. Analog board re-cap solved "vibration" on screen and it worked fine. I could even play some games,  but after I replaced already weak caps on motherboard it started to give me no bong, random vertical bars...

Hi,  Having problem with Classic II I bought a few months ago, after washing the motherboard it started to work just fine, but the caps were really weak, hardly providing any sound. Recapped the analogue board with success (no screen vibration) and then did the same to motherboard it with SMD...

 I had the same error popping up on my 512ke with upgrade card, reseating the card made it boot without issues!

here's what I found, there's a crack in resistor. 

ok replacing the correct transistor didnt help, so I am continuing to determine the cause of failure. There's raster, but no video generated by Mac on screen. I assume that it has nothing to do with suction cup connection I had to fix, since the monitor in luminated.   Before replacing R20, R21...

Hi, after some search managed to find a mighty Quadra 840AV. The problem is it's being sold as is, untested.  Bearing in mind the appearance of Mac Classic leaking caps and PRAM battery disaster I was thinking how bad this model of Quadra can be over many years of negligence? Would like to hear...

wow, thanks a million, guys! Adding terminator definitely helped.. now it's working perfectly, luckily there's no bad sectors on EUROPA 40 hard disk. The last file was created in 95 or 96, since then it was sitting in closet. Need to try the second (CMS) drive, but need to find 25 pin terminator...

Hi there,  some of my latest purchases came with 1980s/early 90s SCSI external drives (CMS 80 MB and branded 40 MB one cant remember the maker). However when I attach them to my Plus with running 6.0.8 from the floppy, none of them appear in Finder (I power on hdd before starting my Mac). I can...

have you guys tried online version of pici? http://pici.picidae.net/ used to work immediately, now it takes some time to process...maybe local network OSX version will work faster. It makes a snapshot of modern sites and lets you navigate around it using really obsolete web browsers. Works on...

thx techknight, you're right, I used 2N3906 instead of 2N3904.

here's an update: after swapping transistor mentioned above things got uglier. Now I get the same horizontal stripes pattern, but there's no video generated by Mac behind those stripes. Fiddling with cut off did not help. After turning it on it starts to boot ( I can hear hard drive spinning...

I also recommend IPA (isopropyl, not India Pale Ale), I found local shop selling it for equivalent of 4$ per gallon. 

fortunately it's working! Found a tip on ancient net.micro.macintosh newsgroup how to increase RAM from 1 to 2 MB. 

thank you Elfen and tjjq, I will have another Plus (labeled Plus ED), so I can check those things. Will give you an update.

tjjq4: Mac512ke shows sad MAc 01Exxx error with swapped ROM chips from Plus.  Is it worth trying to dump original ROMs from Plus and write them to 27c512 chips? I think I've heard about this solution, but seems dubious in my case.

Hi I bought this Mac Plus with ROM error ( probably needs freshly burnt eeprom ), but I tried to swap ROM chips from 512Ke (seated inside MacSnap scsi card). They should be compatible with Plus.  When booted it with new ROM it showed happy Mac and started to load from floppy, but it stops after...