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ProDOS is Apple II format... totally different from MS-DOS/FAT.  I think the ONLY way to boot the DOS card is from a floppy, CD, or a partition file created by the DOS card utility.

http://www.applefool.com/clockchipping/q630.html ^ that contains everything you need to know.  Other than dealing with very small parts, it's incredibly easy.

I'm just wondering now if maybe a smaller boot partition size would help.  Seems like I ended up with 2GB and 8GB partitions on mine. Nothing wrong with running OS 7.  I overclocked mine to 40MHz so 8.1 runs extremely well, and noticeably better than at 33MHz.  

Odd... is there a newer version of the PC compatibility extensions that you could try?  I'm running OS 8.1 on mine and it's relatively stable.  I don't know if OS version has an effect on that stuff or not, other than support for HFS+ drives.  Fairly sure I've got a 10GB drive in my LC630...

I'd be shocked if they haven't leaked.  ALL the caps in pizza box LC machines I have seen have leaked.  Even those that I know were rarely used.  I would almost lean more towards a power supply issue in this case, but it could go either way.

Your LC475 is not an LCIII or even close to equivalent.  I suspected that it was an LCII for some reason.  SimCity 2000 is not going to run well on that, and it never will unless you found a Presto upgrade or something like that.   LC's and LCII's were just notoriously slow from the get go. ...

Just my own experience but I saw just as many PII/III boxes back in the day in use at home as I did Celerons and AMD K5/K6/etc chips.  Actually the AMDs were really not all that popular until the Athlon series came out.  From then on 2-3 years, it was probably 80% AMD chips in consumer PCs that...

Recapping isn't going to hurt at all but I also have never noticed a decrease in performance.  Maybe quiet or dead audio or a machine that won't boot but not just slow. Many times a simple memory upgrade or a faster hard drive will produce dramatic results.  I remember when I upgraded my LC630...

I wouldn't pass up a G3 ZIF upgrade either if one comes up for sale.  PowerLogix made some up to 1.1GHz.  G4 CPU upgrades are nice and worth pursuing but there's nothing you'll do on a Beige G3 that you really need it for.  The overclocked 400MHz G3 chip I have in mine, currently running at...

Nice score.  Both of mine are weird about RAM too - if I move them around, I often have to reseat everything in order for it to boot.   Dunno if I'd chase that Radeon 9200 or not.  I have one of those and a 7000 as well.  Performance is really about the same.  There are some Sonnet G4 ZIF...

I'd like to see a couple other drives swapped in and see if the results are the same.  There is just something not right about what's happening there. Besides, the argument that "it doesn't work now in 2019 thus it never worked and was not designed to" does not hold any water when it comes to...

SuperDrive = FDHD and thus is backwards compatible... they are the same auto inject drives that are installed in all of the later machines.  It's just a name.  I had an FDHD SE years ago - pretty sure it had a 40MB hard drive and a single floppy.  I had a dual 800k SE too.  Cool hardware.

Looks original enough to me, all of my SEs have text printed in a very dark gray. Not quite sure why but mine never yellowed much.  One of them has been sitting in my office for about 10 years under fluorescent lights and it looks the same as it always has.  My SE/30, though... is blotchy...

They have a broken 190 listed for almost 3x what I paid for the one I was supposed to get.  They also have a LOT of very recent negative feedback.  And I haven't even gotten so much as an apology - the ONLY thing they've sent was a return label for the G3.  If they deal in volume like that, they...

Now it appears that maven_technologies does not have the PowerBook that I was supposed to get.  What a rip off.  I would almost bet money that they just weren't happy with the auction end price... it would not surprise me to see it relisted.  

Well, I have it in my hands, and it's a PowerBook G3 of some flavor, and totally beat up.  CLEARLY not what I won.  Hopefully they just sent the wrong one and still have my 190 - we will see, I would be bummed to just get a refund and someone else has my 190.

I think you're referring to the all-in-one G3, which does share the same logic board.  The eMac is totally different, they are closer to an iMac than anything else. Do they power on at all or are they just totally dead?

There are 50 pin terminators out there although the Centronix D-sub style terminator is a LOT more common. I'm also curious if your drive/drive enclosure has termination circuitry built into it and if so, is it enabled? I feel like this could also be a simple matter of assigning the drive a...

^ I think that is correct.  The 140 allegedly does not need a system enabler, so it must be in the ROM.  FWIW after 7.1 or so you usually won't see a specific model there anyway... a universal system software install may just show "Macintosh" or "PowerBook" or something generic.  Ignore it. ...

That'd be awesome, once I get it in my hands and see what all I need, we should talk about that.  Pretty sure I have a drive or six but the caddy I do not have.