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Welcome back! It seems that some CCs have a CUDA reset switch. Mine doesn't, but if yours has one, it's worth trying to press it for 20 sec, just in case. You may need a working battery for that trick to work. Read more details here and here. Checking the area around the electrolythic...

LOL. Because since MacOS 8 it was easy to change the System Font, I quickly went to Gadget -- never really liked the standard Charcoal, although I may be biased by other interface atrocities of OS 8... :( It's what I use in my 8.6+ machines.

Nice! You don't have to remove the CD drive in order to install a second HD, there's room for it under the stock one -- usually covered by an EMI plate.

I can't tell for every single CPU model made, but generally speaking, and within a certain manufacturing process, heat dissipation depends on the actual clock input, no matter what the certified speed is. The latter parameter defines the propagation delays, which in turn increase with...

Mac PSU's pinouts: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/MacinPC_ATX_case/images/PC-MAC_PS_pinouts.jpg (wow, there's a link already :) ) The IIsi PSU has the same pinout of the IIcx-ci-vx, Quadra 650-700 and PowerMac 7100; but the form factor is different. You may try them on the bench...

Oh yes, you're right -- the accelerator board will replace the built-in hardware. However, I was thinking about those adapter cards with FPU socket for the IIsi and the like, which add themselves to the existing hardware. I just opened one of my SE/30s... my Ethernet card isn't really like...

Hi all, I got a 5200 mobo for peanuts -- intended for a Takky mod. Like I do with any old mobo, I washed it, but still doesn't look that great... Anyway, I've got the wiring harness, and the (mandatory?) ROM/L2 Cache SIMM so I hooked a known-good ATX PSU to the power connector (I know the...

Yes, but this one won't accept PayPal... postal money orders to the US are no longer available here, and a money transfer (Western Union?) will cost more than the price itself -- add the overseas shipping and the eventual customs clearance, and I may be paying four times the nominal price :(...

Hi all, I've got a couple of IIsi's -- case and mobo, but no disks or PSU. After washing, the MoBos work great (I used a Quadra 700 PSU on the bench) and I have several SCSI disks for them, but the IIsi Power Supply Unit seems very hard to get. Any chance that another PSU (say, from a LC)...

And within Europe? ;)

Sorry to hear that. A couple of ideas, though: -Maybe your CD300 isn't totally dead... since the problem arose when you tried to eject the CD, those noises and smell could come from the tray's motor, but everything else could be fine. My CD300e does rattle upon powering up, ejecting and...

But if the host machine is a SE/30, the FPU installed on the card may conflict with the built-in one... I believe those FPU sockets were made for the IIsi, which uses the same PDS connector and doesn't have a built-in FPU. I don't think the ROMs or the OS could take advantage of a dual FPU...

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OK, no box or drives, but... •7600 mobo with 64 (16x4) MiB RAM and fully populated VRAM sockets. Includes speaker and A/V connectors board. I think I'm seeing a L2 cache card... •Processor daughtercard for the above: 604 @ 120 MHz •Power supply for the 7600 et al. This was the item I was...

Definitely needs recapping. However, you may try washing the board first -- it won't heal the dying capacitors, of course, but at least will remove the leakage from them, which in time could actually eat the traces, rendering the board useless :(

I can't tell for sure, but here's a thought... Since the issue looks like analog but you discarded that possibility with your "control" machine, the only thing I can think of (you checked the board connector, didn't you?) would be the path between the analog board and the place of actual video...

Interesting... I have purchased a HP branded, Seagate made 72.8 GB Ultra-320 SCSI disk which (thru an inexpensive SCA-to-50pin adapter) works perfectly with my old Macs. That includes the SE/30, at least for those partitions below 2 GB ;) Now you have mentioned SGI... I'd like to reserve a...

By the way... will the Apple CD/DVD Driver from 8.1 support a non-Apple SCSI DVD-ROM drive? For instance, Toshiba M1401, which seems to be easily found and rather unexpensive.

Maybe I'm a bit late, but... Don't give up! Unless your card is able to make an actual composite NTSC signal (instead of the common RGB output with NTSC timing on many Macs) that 14.318 MHz crystal won't be used as the NTSC Chrominance encoding reference... More good news: the official dot...

Not sure about the IIci, but some old Macs need a working Lithium battery in order to startup. Maybe you could try to put near 5 V between pin 9 of the PSU connector and ground -- a similar procedure can be used for starting up a Mac IIx.