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Unfortunately, now it won't even jumpstart. It shut off after playing the death chime again and now no matter how long I jump it, it remains silent.

I just got my Mac II to fire up, but now I need to diagnose it due to getting a death chime. The only Mac monitor I have supports a fixed rate of 832 x 624. The original Macintosh II Video Card installed has all VRAM sockets filled, so my understanding is that it supports 8-bit color at 640 x...

I strengthened the wires and held them to the pin and case for longer. It fired up but, sadly, I got a death chime. Now I just need to get a monitor to plug into it.

Yes. It's a PRAM battery I pulled from another working Mac, and I'm touching the positive to the white wire terminal and the negative to the case metal. I'll try to prolong contact once I get back home, and I'll also see if cleaning the contacts of the very dirty, very ancient Mac II power...

I'm attempting to test a Macintosh II that I'm about to begin working on. When I use my half double A battery to attempt a jumpstart by touching the end white wire pin and the case metal, all I get is a quick fan spin, a flicker, and the speaker making the usual popping sound when power is...

It really would be wonderful if System 7 worked on a New World ROM. Sad. It's my favorite OS, for sure.

OK. I'm leaving this up for anyone who makes the same mistake I made: Somehow, having the SCSI ID on the Rodime set to anything but 0 caused the drive to be mounted 6 more times. Not sure if it's a Rodime quirk or your typical SCSI voodoo, but if you have one of these drives, set yours to 0...

I just acquired a beautiful Rodime 20 Plus External hard drive with an RO652 disk drive, and for the most part, it works wonderfully. However, it has a strange quirk that neither the acts of reinstalling System 6 nor initializing the drive fix. Whenever I boot up, whether from floppy or hard...

I appreciate that. Chances are I'll already be picking one up off of eBay by the time you locate it, because I'm admittedly no good with patience, but thank you for the offer.

I had absolutely no idea those existed. Either that, or I didn't look closely enough and just thought those were apple branded adapters that allowed VGA monitors to be used on older Macs. Thank you. Something tells me that is my best bet, because if it was already made by Apple, then it's wired...

I'm currently using a VGA LCD screen on a VGA card set at 832x624 75Hz, which was one of the standard resolutions I could select in OS 9 (among 640x480 thru 1280x1024 & 60-75Hz). I am going to assume that it's definitely a VGA signal. As for having to zap the pram, if i ever need to do so, I'd...

It's a Gigabit Ethernet. The first one available with dual G4's. I'm honestly scared of picking up a MDD due to the high failure rate of the wind tunnel power supplies. Passive adapter? Are you referring to the typical adapter that lets VGA monitors work on classic Macs?

Alas, I had one of these and my G4 wouldn't display anything when I tried using this card.

I tried to get a TwinTurbo PCI I had from a Power Mac 8600 to work in my G4 but it refused to display anything, regardless of whether I plugged anything into the Mac DB15 or the VGA port (the card had both). I'll look for an old Rage II or Rage Pro PCI and try that. Thanks for the tip.

If this is the wrong topic section, my apologies. This display did come with a Quadra, so it's my best guess. I was wondering if I could use my Macintosh 16" Color Display on my much newer Power Mac G4 if I use an Apple DB15 to VGA adapter in conjunction with a DB15 female-to-female gender...

I guess that I'm more used to dealing with 10- and 10/100-BaseT chips, since I usually deal with fixing computers older than Apple's fruit flavored stuff. Those chips aren't cooled by anything other than the system fan. Thanks for the information!

Yes, it's plugged into my router. However, it heats up regardless of whether or not it's plugged in. I think you're right, though. The chip in question seems to populate what was a vacant set of solder pins on the original Sawtooth model, and since the ethernet speed is the only major...

Just thought I'd give an update for anyone who's interested: I have since bought 2 more Gigabit Ethernet DP models, as well as a replacement logic board for the one in question. All 4 boards do the same thing as the one I asked about last year: That same tiny heatsink gets nice and toasty during...

Every time I try to boot from my LC 520's internal SCSI hard drive bay, it hangs. My external SCSI drive never fails to fully boot, however. I have also swapped the drives and the same thing happens, so I'm led to believe it's the internal hard drive bay itself. All pins are intact, unbent and...

The only card in the system is the Rage 128 AGP card that it came with. From what I can tell, nothing is waking the computer. It's remaining in sleep mode until I wake it, and it wakes normally. No indication pointing towards periodically waking. On the page you linked, there are 2 pastes and...