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@joshc Thank you! It hasn't seen much use over the past several years, which has kept it looking crisp. The screen looks perfect for about 45 minutes and then the edges start to show signs of darkening. By an hour its down right annoying. Now I can't find the battery for it. Not that it works...

In 2008 I bought a 180 from its original owners. At the time I didn't know what I wanted to do with the machines that I was accumulating. I was mostly trying to buy the Macs as an adult that I dreamed about as a kid simply to have them. Anyway, when the active matrix tunneling syndrome (AMTS...

I can only laugh at this point: the Duo Dock won't turn on. It worked just fine in November and has been unplugged since. It didn't even give me the clicking failure noise...simply nothing but a warm power supply and no power. A project for another time; I still need to get 7.6 installed...

I recently received the same Apple-branded card and when installed in my beige G3 running 9.2.1 with the 2.4.2 Enet extension, the machine will not boot past the happy mac screen. I reset the PRAM but still no boot. I have yet to move the card around to different PCI slots but before I do...

Success! A little heat, some wiggling, slight prying and voila! There was red glue residue around the covers. I'm going to assume the previous owner was determined to keep the panels together. At last, a PRAM battery that looks relatively easy to duplicate and that is unlikely to leak. Lots...

I'm attempting to replace the original HD with a SD adapter but I'm being thwarted by the clutch covers. The previous owner used some glue to keep the front and back display panels together sometime back in 1999. It no longer holds but it appears that they used quite a bit and the clutch covers...

Hi Johann. Thanks for the post and video. Good catch on the tiny orientation windows. Also, nice B&O Pentas! I use my MKII pair daily.

@CircuitBored Thank you for that information! Interesting, I did not know these quirks of the Quicksilver model. So far both USB ports work. I admit to not really knowing what reflowing is beyond a hunch. I'll take a look under the board first to see if there's any cracking. C193, is that...

I could put the original hard drive back in and see if it will operate normally in that configuration, maybe even install the FCP and see if it has problems as well. The physical problem it had was a RAM slot with bent prongs. I moved them back (its not perfect) and now that bank registers...

I also can't get the keyboard PRAM reset to work. Possibly the USB to ADB converter?

Thanks, @herd. The length of the update process was partly my fault but overall the machine has been acting oddly: Beach ball program crashes (iTunes won't finish processing gapless playback and volume level for a 190GB library, Final Cut Pro 4 won't get past "Loading Audio Filters", keyboard...

Huzzah! The original heat sink extracted its drop of blood as I tried to removed the final clip and the speed is 1.27 not the 1.6 I thought it was but its in and working! The Sonnet sticker was removed by the previous owner a good 8 years ago now and I thought it registered at 1.6Ghz in my AGP...

Finally! Ok next step, swap processors.

Progress, maybe? Finally got to the open firmware screen but the keyboard isn't registering any keystrokes. USB not working now? I'll try another reboot...

Hmm, the first firmware update attempted was not successful and the updater instructions aren't the clearest. I opened the updater, it gave the usual instructions that an administrator password would be needed, then went on about being in programmer's mode but didn't elaborate on when. Before...

Thank you @herd. Oh yes, I had forgotten about the anti-upgrade efforts. This makes the process much simpler. Here we go...

I'm in the midst of upgrading my 3,5 Quicksilver dual 1Ghz. At this point I have 10.5 running on a SATA/PCI SSD and I'm getting ready to install a Sonnet 1.6 Ghz processor but I'm confused by Sonnet's install guide vs drivers on their support site. The manual predates Tiger and wants 9.2...

I think you've solved it, @jhorvath911 ! I would not have thought to install it backwards. Thank you for your efforts : ) Installing it this way has almost worked for me. The rear panel still won't close but its less of a gap than before. I might try adjusting the screws to see if that will...

@jhorvath911 Thank you! Wow, a 68k Mac part at OWC still and at a nice discount no less. The image on their site does look different from mine so its worth a try. Maybe the revision is part of the fitment? Thank you for checking your machine. I appreciate that. I'll order it and let you know...

Yet another project that I'm trying to bring to completion; my 550 ->575. I have the correct rear door cover but now the hard drive sled doesn't allow it to clip in. The release tab sticks out a bit too far for the rear door. The P/N is 815-0446 Rev D, which as I understand it is correct. The...