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Howdy, I have (2) different 17" iMac G4 systems. One is a 1.25 GHz system that I bought new. The other is a very nice but slightly less capable 1 GHz system from the prior model year that a friend gave to me when she said her system started to not startup when pressing the power button and...

If you have it, I would recommend Word 4.0e with System 7.1 Word 5.1 was the beginning of slowness and bloat. It introduced lots of gratuitous menu bars that hogged precious screen real estate on our 9" screens. It came on at least 4 HD floppy whilst the entire 4.0e program came on an 800k...

Old thread but I could not resist. I have (4) 2MB SIMMS in my IIci. They are in bank A and though I could easily replace them with 16MB SIMMS like I have in bank B for an impressive total of 128 I have stayed with the 2. My set is very unique. I bought them back in 1992 at a great price at a...

Ha! my old thread bounced back to near the top! At first glance my board looked clean albeit dusty. When I removed the board and dusted it off and held it to the bright light I could then see crusty deposits around the solder joints on the sound chips and other chips adjacent to the Caps. It...

Is your Radius Card the same one as mine and are you also running System 7.1? Also, are you using the RGB to VGA Adaptor with the resolution dip switches? thanks, Brian

I was able to recently obtain a 15" NEC 1530 15" LCD display. It is white and matches my IIci nicely. I have a Radius Precision Color Xp nubus card. The resolutions listed at the following web page are all for 24-bit mode. http://lowendmac.com/video/radius24xp.html Can it support higher...

Thanks for the tip it sounds like a good idea but I can't find one of these items. Everything out there seems to be 1280x1024 native resolution. Do you know of any specific models that are 1280 x 960? They must be rare... thanks, Brian

I posed this question on the "bringing back to life" thread but did not get any response most likely because I slipped it in as an afterthought. Although it works perfectly, I would love to find a "primitive" 640 X 480 platinum (beige) LCD to take the place of the heavy 13" RGB. Does anyone...

Success!!! :) Cleaning up all of the flux after all of the soldering took the longest. The soldering itself was not too bad. There were one or two pads that had corroded a bit from the CAP leakage and it was hard to get them to take new solder - hence the massive fluxing. I carefully put...

Progress!! I managed to successfully remove all of the radial style electrolytic CAPs today. The 2 really little ones came right off as soon as the solder melted. It was tougher on the larger ones than the 2 smallest ones because there was GLUE under the larger ones. Thank goodness I had...

That update didn't happen to be System Update 3.0 did it? BTW, the Caps arrived today, I am looking forward to getting them installed. If all goes well, I will next conquer the SE/30 (I've got a spare IIfx ROM SIMM to make that beauty 32-bit clean!) Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, Shanghai...

Thanks for trying this out on your SE/30. What about when you get info on the System Suitcase? It looks like we got some conflicting data and the mothership does not acknowledge the other versions. The macintosh garden site certainly seems to believe in the later versions such as 7.1.2 as...

So, would the 7.1.2 or 7.1.3 installer let you do a specific install for another system such as a IIci? Assuming it did, when you checked the system would it say that it was 7.1.3? I was a seed site from 7.5.2 through the end of 9. In spite of the horrible stuff folks were saying about Apple...

Just when I thought I was educated in the versions of 7.1, now I find that there is even a 7.1.3!!! http://inlovewithapple.com/software.html I have no idea other than what the page above describes. Were there installer disks (CDs or floppies?) They were always fixing bugs back in those days...

Wow! lots of replies! From wikipedia: and I wonder how many "bug fixes" there were in each of these. I would custom install for just my IIci so I don't think that either one would be too bloated versus 7.1. Any thoughts? In the meantime, after I resolder in the Tantalum capacitors, I need...

I've been running Mac Systems since 6.0.3 and yet somehow this version escaped me for all of these years. Are there any advantages to running this vs. 7.1? ie. does it being "Pro" mean that it has better performance? I tend to run a lean system so I don't need all of the extra stuff like the...

Thanks for the idea and your interest, I went back and once again successfully booted the IIci from the ADB keyboard! I tried my spare IIci speaker and I also closely examined the contacts both on motherboard and all of the points in the speaker's plug and also where the speaker's leads connect...

I had another go at my IIci withy the other power supply. This time it did not boot up when I plugged it in. However... it booted PERFECTLY!!! from the keyboard YES!!! I was able to repeat this several times. Still no sound but it looks like I still have a good Aztech power supply. BTW, my...

Well I think I just found the answer, it is definitely due to size. These things are absolute barrels for the capacitance that we need...

I am about to replace my old leaky caps on my IIci but before I go ahead and order them from Trag I wanted to see if anyone knew whether or not mylar capacitors might be an option for the big ones, the 470 microfarad and at least one other good sized one on the IIci motherboard. Mylar caps are...