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If it's like the 180 not-c, then it might be caused by leaky caps causing shorts on the LCD board surrounding the LCD.

If it were me, I'd try swapping parts. I don't know much about complex CPU/ROM issues. If the horizontal movement is so rare, I wouldn't let it bother me, but perhaps rather consider it a possible clue about the computer's issue. The confusing thing is, one seems like an analog issue, while the...

Oh man, I had a lot of those a few years ago and the whole thing was a mess. I think most of the problem was PSUs as well, but couldn't be sure it wasn't quirks with the PMU or IDE or whatnot.

I've taken stuff from the dump before. I say if it's possible to do it without getting fined, go for it. If not, I agree that's really lame.

I'd be more concerned about where it came from, lol. Maybe the FDD or HDD.

Johnnya had the same issue. I have his PSU, but haven't had time to really dig into it yet. I'm suspecting the main switching transistors. I also found a faulty diode near the PWM chip.

I very seriously considered doing the same thing! Very cool! (I have a hackintosh in a G4 MDD case so I opted to put an ADC adapter inside the tower case instead, if I can figure out how to run the wires without borking the data signals with EMI). How did you get the soft switch to work? Did...

That's quite a few traces for one chip, you might want to rethink your method :) but don't worry, it's not the end of the world. If it were me, I'd run a bodge wire to the nearest pad or via in the trace. Johnnya actually has a IIfx that I fixed that way :)

I'm jealous of that fan, it looks awesome to me. I've never been bothered by the sound level of computers and I've never seen that kind of fan before.

So I have been slow and all that but I have gotten around to checking the input voltages for the PWM chip and they were pretty good. So I swapped the two main fast switching transistors and saw a voltage much closer to normal. I swapped in ones from a unit that already was suspect for having...

d-did you get a capacitor backwards... the weird thing here is that it used to kind of work....

Well, don't be so afraid of it :)  it won't leap out of it's case to get you, at least. If I were you I would attempt to power it on with the rear case off and figure out if the noise was the speaker, the FDD, or the CRT. I had one that somehow had a short in the CRT, and it made a noise...

At the risk of sounding stupid, but with the possibility of learning something new, I'll say that I didn't know it was supposed to suction anything, I thought it was just a big insulator so you couldn't accidentally touch the anode with anything, even a small wire.

If you think it's worth $1000, why ask for one free?

I've had no issues when leaving socketed chips in and then letting it dry sitting at an angle with a fan blowing on it.

oh, I have that upgrade board in my 128k, it's a very nice one. There is, somewhere, a bracket and adapter board that mounts a 50-pin hard drive vertically behind the FDD, that would be nice to have.

No, if you can't do much with it I don't find it interesting. I would just look at it and feel smug if I had one. Which I would like to do.

Maybe like $5 + shipping? If you happen to be in the US, shipping should be around $2.

Do you have any use for this stick of RAM from my Centris 610? There's also a 1 meg ROM SIMM. I'm not sure what capacity the RAM is. It has 8 chips that read "Mitsubishi M5M417400A" and 4 that read "M5M44100A". The Centris is capable of booting, but has no drives...

It's unfortunate, but I'd hate for you to risk damage to your cube... the box says on it "Requires Cube Installation Kit: Kit P/N SGC-KIT for 800MHz and 1.2 GHz G4 only, Kit P/N SGC-VRM supports any speed." I'm not sure exactly what that means but perhaps it originally intended to go with a VRM...