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Very nice setup there! That's quite a speed and storage upgrade you have. I've got a 6100 myself, but not quite as fancy and I use an AEK and a vga lcd. - Sonnet G3 250 MHz (well 33x8=264). - 136mb ram - 12x scsi cd-rom ^ everything else is basically stock  No experience to quote but if...

And why wouldn't it just work? It's true you never know with Apple, but according to the support site (it's an Arris product and discontinued too...) version 8.x only supports up to 10.10 so if it supports 10.11 then it's likely that it would work in 10.12 barring specific evidence otherwise.

I don't know exactly what the original jack is, but the output is just an RCA jack for composite video afaik so you could probably buy one from Mouser or Digikey. Sparkfun even sells one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8631You should check the pinout though.   It might be worth trying to...

I think the normal chime is supposed to mean it passed at least a basic hardware test and is working. Is it possible the backlight is off or that it has failed (try the flashlight test)? I know on mine (iBook G4 14" 1.42) the lowest backlight setting (using keyboard brightness controls) is...

I assume you tried the non-working drive in the working LC II?

Did you test the -5 V line? You don't mention it as far as I can tell. Maybe do a PSU recap? I would think if the drive spins up then things were okay initially. Can you boot from floppy and if so does the drive mount and is it readable?

I recently obtained a replacement used SCSI cdrom drive for my Power Mac 6100/66. The previous drive (original I think) had a problem with not ejecting the tray (made motor noises but no eject). Unfortunately in the process of using the newer one (which does work at least) I discovered that it's...

Ah, well, same difference anyway. I don't care much one way or the other, but I agree the fan wouldn't do any good in a 6100 anyway. No idea about voltage or compatibility, but here's someone selling (on ebay) what looks like the other guy's suggestion.  ...

Those "SCSI Connectors" you removed aren't some sort of external termination block/pack, right? Any pictures of what you're talking about? I'd also second the suggestion of a replacement. I have an 80mb and 500mb scsi drive in my LCIII, Power Mac 6100 respectively and while they still spin up...

Not sure what the appropriate tool is, but maybe you need to repair the disk somehow? With floppy disks at least that sort of message is the sign of either a dead disk, an incompatible format, or some kind of data corruption that makes it impossible for the computer to tell what kind of data is...

I haven't done any recapping myself, but I would definitely recommend cleaning up that mess right of the fan and recapping the board. Dead capacitors are apparently the source of all kinds of misery in terms of non working macs. Does the 6500 not have a PRAM battery? A dead pram battery cab can...

I believe the current chip is soldered down. Thanks for the tip, though. How does the fan help though, since there is still the issue of airflow? I have plans to put in a sonnet g3 upgrade in any case, which will displace the DOS card.

I was just changing the cd-rom drive on my power mac (old one doesn't eject tray so I found another on ebay) and fired it up just for kicks and then I shut it down and unplugged when we started having a thunderstorm. The DOS card or at the least the plate behind it does seem to get quite warm...

I would point out that "only a wikipedia article" is a completely meaningless statement. It is certainly pssoble for it to be completely wrong, but also possible for it to be entirely correct. It's validity is based on what the correctness of what it says, not whether it's from "Wikipedia" or...

I guess so on the connector, however I think it's unnecessarily confusing.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature DE does not apparently mean 9 pins, it only means a connector size as DE-9 is the connector for a serial port, but a VGA port is DE-15 according to the above page. So I...

Glad to hear you found a solution and it was so simple a fix. I opened PC power supply up once because it wasn't working. I haven't repaired any myself, but they usually contain an assortment of standard components (fuses, resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers) plus a couple integrated...

Could be, I can't hear any "chirping" in the video, though. Was the computer working prior to the current problem? If you know what the capacitor is rated and can do math and find the right parts you may be able to replace it with a group of smaller capacitors as long as they have an...

Your computer: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_ii/specs/mac_iivx.html Looks like there's a list of nubus video cards here: http://www.lowendmac.com/video/ Assuming you can find a working card, adapters from macintosh (DB-15) to VGA are fairly easy to find. The issue is probably not...

I wouldn't call the problem solved, although it is technically a solution. Having to run a second piece of software and an entire mail server just to get your mail is a major burden and somewhat unreasonable. You might as well just print it out on your modern computer and carry a stack of paper...

It's not misinformation. The point is not that websites as a whole are the same, but that the majority of the content presented is. Think about it for a bit. Even Facebook is just text, images, some animated GIFs (or similar) and video. The real changes are the addition of some kinds of...