Search results

Any ideas on the spontaneous bootup and the lack of "influence" via the ADB? Could the power supply also have issues? I do have a spare but it is about the exact age as the other one. I appreciate your tips. I would like to get my IIci back to 100%. I will see if letting it rest for another...

My motherboard looks absolutely beautiful and after waiting some extra days as advised I decided to go for it. I reassembled the IIci and it immediately booted up (spontaneously) when I inserted the power plug. I switched it to 32 bit addressing and restarted. There is sound but it is so...

Thanks JRL, I will wait until New Years Eve so that I can maybe get a second official boot in for the 2000-2009 decade. That makes a total of at least a good 8 days in dry winter air - that should theoretically be enough one would hope... I am certain though that I still will need to replace...

I finally cleaned my IIci motherboard. I used a large diameter bucket with Alconox detergent mixed with warm water. It really brightened things up. It worked so well actually that I was able to notice there was corrosion on some of the solder contacts of some of the really small chips...

It looks like it will be a bit longer before I clean the board. I thought about going in to work to do it today but it looks like we're in a blizzard now here on the US east coast. I don't have an antistatic bag big enough for the board. I took a couple of shots of the board now removed. It...

It sounds like we both like the "Mid" tier Macs which sadly do not seem to exist today. My iMacG4 DDR is the closest I have come to getting a "consumer" level Mac though I will say that compared to the current all-in-one designs it at least has a full height DVD Burner and not the notebook slot...

I've decided how I am going to clean the motherboard. I'm going to use Alconox. From their website: (Notice it mentions circuit boards!) http://www.alconox.com/static/section_top/gen_manual.asp Recommended Products: ALCONOX, LIQUI-NOX, CITRANOX, CITRAJET, TERG-A-ZYME, ALCOJET, DET-O-JET...

OK, here is the promised story: I purchased my first Mac, a IIci in November 1990. I had been using IBM PCs (XTs and ATs) for the 5 years prior that I spent as a student at The Ohio State University. When I began my new job fresh out of school, my first boss who was 70+ and did not use...

Thanks for all of the replies. I'm definitely for trying to clean the motherboard. There are no obvious signs of corrosion or "spills" of electrolyte immediately adjacent to the caps like I have seen in other pictures, just that dispersed film of oily goo in the general vicinity that seems to...

> Does "precipitate" mean fall from above? Yes, pretty much. It almost appears like the capacitor goop went into a vapor phase and then more or less precipitated out onto the surrounding chips. It is spread over a large area but generally within the proximity of the caps. The sound chips...

I just enlisted yesterday. I have been on a quest to resurrect my IIci, my first Mac that I bought new in Nov of 1990 hence my user name. I was a lucky one who got the metal SIMM clips and not the brittle plastic ones. I have a long story on this but I appear to have had capacitor bleedout...