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Just recently pulled some machines out of storage including this Powercenter 132... One of a pair I have. I just replaced the CD-ROM drive with one I seagulled out of the dead WGS, as the original one would not respond or spin up discs. Hence the lack of frnt controls on the drive itself. :)...

And here we have the IIci after a tidy up... I love everything about these machines and they are definitely among my favourite desktop cases... except for when it comes to cleaning them. *bangs head against wall*... It took me nearly an hour to get all the grime and dust out of all the grooves...

Next one looking sharp after a quick spruce up is the ROM03 IIgs... In all honesty I only ever really used this once and then put it away in a dark place as it was in such good nick. One thing I love about this machine (and a few others from the era) is the silkscreened monograph on the...

So as you probably know I intended to delve into the cave and retreive some more treasures, bats and spiders some time back but didnt know where to start... well I found the motivation, and as there were a few machines that seemed to tickle everyones fancy I used them as a starting point on my...

I've neglected this thread for a bit, however that isnt to say things havent been happening. :  For one, I recently added a Sawtooth G4 to the tower of power collection... It's very stock, a little dirty, and has a couple of broken case latches but it worked like a charm after a PMU reset so no...

Ah well there ya go... the more you know. :) And yeh I do recall that now about the caps... I remember seeing a Mac II board some time ago and being over the moon at he fact there was not a single electrolytic in sight, and from what I recall, there is only a single electrolytic axial cap on...

So, after reading trag's contribution to a thread involving CPU card compatibility in edge-slot Powermacs, I note that there are actually fairly significant differences between the Tsunami and later Kansas boards in the 9600... In any case, I decided to pull out my spare 9600 board to identify...

3.6V should be fine, but that said, I've seen the Varta brand 3V ones for under 10 bucks a unit on ebay, whicch were OEM fitment on late 80's Apple's and Mac's such as the SE and IIgs so will even look mostly factory. To my understanding, the 3V ones are actually 3.6V anyway... Somebody correct...

Options are pretty much as follows A) Leave the batteries out... Flat PRAM wierdness doesnt really affect most 68k's of that era. B ) Cut the existing pigtails really close to the old battery, lay somefoil or something under the area and carefully solder a normal battery to the pigtails from...

Cheers trag, this info is a godsend... That old thread from years back makes the politics of edge-daughtercards pretty straightforward. My undersatanding after reading that is basically that for PCC machines using  the PowerCurve boards it's no dice using any of the x500/x600 stock cards as an...

I'd go as far as to say fairly worthless from a purely monetary point of view, as they really don't do anything overly cool, but definitely worth getting for $10 for intrinsic novelty value alone, however as Charles pointed out, it is an entirely worthless paperweight unless it has the correct...

Does anybody have any information or experience to share with regards the use of genuine Apple OEM 604 daughtercards from x500/x600 series machines (and others that are related) in clone PPC machines? Specifically, I have a PowerCenter 132 that I recently pulled out of the Stack™, which uses...

The 9600 is somewhat finicky about batteries, yes. Try turning the machine on, then off then on again at powerup over a space of about 3 seconds... its a trick to get a 9600 with a flat PRAM battery going. Or in my case, no PRAM batery. That said, this only partially solve d my issue. I still...

This thread has delivered. :D

Good stuff! I'm glad to see you finally found a solution to the problem that also involved using some ducks-nuts hardware, the inverse of my current 9600 situation where only a stock video card or a busted Rage128 will work, but not the good 128 or the R7000ME. They were a fantastic card then...

If you turn it off switch the wall socket off, hit the power button a couple of times until it stops flashing the power button as though it is trying to power on. leave it plugged in for a day with the power turned off at the socket it should bleed the stored voltage out of *most* parts of the...

Great to hear mate! A little perserverance goes a long way... I literally pulled down my 9600 to a bare shell and replaced a whole logic board before I realised the old one was fine. It gave me so many headaches but I found a configuration that worked after a lot of ibuprofen and it made it all...

Yep, definitely the Power supply by the lookooks of things. It's a bit more involved and daunting than the logic board but if you don't rush things, be organised with your workspace and get familiar with things first, you should be right. The hardest part is realistically seperating the top and...

It is definitely good practice to  zap the PRAM after doing just about anything under the lid, even just changing the battery. And sometimes once wont fix it but twice will. Go figure lol. And a cuda reset is what i consider the first step to troubleshooting any failure to  power on properly...

Yep, CUDA reset and PRAM zap before anything... the towers of the late 8/9xxx and G3 era can be rather, shall we say... temperamental (to put it in a nice way).