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Those magnets are fairly weak, I highly doubt them will effect an HDD which would require a huge electromagnet to destroy. Great idea!!

eBay is always hit an miss with these old electronics as it really depends on where these machines were stored and how. cheesestraws said it best about your headphone jack. It has a switch internally that when in use, cuts power to the internal speaker. You are saying you have tried contact...

Very informative David! Always love reading through these. I've personally never touched a II board but leaning new things is never a bad thing. Keep up the great work! Thanks!

Do bears s*** in the woods? LMAO just kidding. I used hot glue to hold my cr2032 battery replacements for pram and it holds perfect once cool. I have a black stick I have had forever that is quite strong when cold. I have to get home and look for it. Ill post a picture. I've used it on PCBs to...

I would suggest just plain ole hot glue just in case you need to service the board/diode in the future. Getting certain glues off for a repair is rather hard depending on the glue. Also, lots of Capacitors in PSU's are fixed in place with a white silicone style glue and even that can be a pain...

Hello ELv1s, I just (Last Month) recapped my IIci as well and what I discovered was that the leaking caps had indeed damaged some traces. Also, plugging in a headphone with some contact cleaner repeatedly got my audio working again but I doubt that is your sole issue here but a free one to...

You are indeed correct! Never though of it that way.

I am no expert on the subject but I do know that old Nintendo consoles used the Hard Gold option on Game PCB's for durability. I mean it makes sense, think about how many times we would insert and remove a game in a old NES for example. Not to mention the obligatory blow into the connector which...

Thank you 🙏🙏 I was so close to following your suggestion of inspecting the modules for shorts but it would have required me to remove the sticker on the cards which would have voided the warranty. That was the literal moment when my brain told itself, "What the heck are you doing! These are...

It is a SuperMac Spectrum 24 PDQ. Another eBay find that I thought was too cheap to be true but sent an offer and it auto accepted. Seller took a bit to ship and in transit got a little damaged so the seller sweetened the deal even more. Thanks to the amazing plethora of help on this site I...

This is all new to me!! I simply trusted the eBay listing and didn't think twice. I guess I'm glad it worked out. Honestly, I like the feel of these, they just seem like better quality, they even click into the SIMMs with ease. I'm a total newbie so take all of that with a grain of salt (I...

Well, here is a recap this far. Memory Masters requires me to send back the bad Modules and once they receive them they will process a new order and reship the replacement modules. I don't think that is quite fair and even asked if they would consider shipping once they saw movement of my...

Hello and thank you for such a a quick response!! Unfortunately I don't even get LED activity with the new memory modules installed. All I get are a few faint clicks from the speaker. Leaving it alone for a few minutes doesn't do anything and pressing the power button just reproduces the same...

Hello friends! Recently purchased a 64MB memory upgrade and I can't successfully boot with the new memory modules. My IIci came with 5MB, x4 1MB modules and and additional x4 256KB. I had the 1MB on Bank B and the smaller 256 on Bank A. That worked great and still does. I have tried just the...

Hello everyone, Sorry for the late response with the Mouser list. Got a horrible cold and am still going through it. In any case, here is the PDF you can use to order the parts from Mouser or cross them to your preferred vendor. Hope this helps!

Jmacz, You are a gentleman and a scholar. I was able to download the file you attached on my Mac, straight to the SD card shared folder and then onto my IIci and transfered using the bluescsi to SD transfer tool. Everything works as expected and I am one happy guy as a result. Guess the...

So I have been using my Windows laptop and I just tried both the apple computers I own. (Modern ish) I download from Mac garden (the exact link jmacz provided) and simply tell the OS to save directly to the mounted SD card to lessen transfers. From there I eject the SD card and input it into my...

Hey Phipli, Just got home and saw your replay. I am simply downloading the file from macgarden (link provided) and what you see on the photos i attached is all I get. For shoots and giggles i tried on Basilisk and got the exact same result. Only thing left to try is an older version of Stuffit...

Hello Phipli!! I have a bluescsi and use the built-in sd transfer tool. Seems to work most of the time but admittedly this isn't the first time it happens. I've had other .sit files that were unusable. What are you thinking? Thanks again!

I just noticed I didn't post the photo of the bodge wire. Here it is for completeness. Hope this helps!