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I just put Soundjam on my 5300 tonight and am definitely enjoying MP3 playback; the system is even sort of still useable while doing so, which was a pleasant surprise. Now, I'm wondering about getting music files on my other Mac. I was wondering if there are any MP3 players for system 6 that...

I guess that's about what I expected, yeah. Galgot, I haven't used sheep shaver on Mac because I don't see how it'd improve over using it on Linux, since both mount HFS as read-only (at least, in my experience) and I'd have to do the same image writing system I'm currently using. Without...

I decided to play around with my g5 iMac (iSight) a bit today, and did some general cleanup before getting sidetracked thinking about file writing. It's honestly the oldest new (post 2000) mac I own, and I was wondering if you can put classic mode on it for OS9 related compatibilty. It's running...

I've collected quite a lot of machines this year after I really started getting into this hobby, so I figured it's about time I got a thread together for the various parts and machines I've been gathering. Today I was visiting a friend and left with some interesting stuff. I'm going to just...

Rsolberg, thanks for your help and advice. I've been out of town for a few days and just got back tonight to play around with the 5300. Unfortunately, removing the CF card and resetting the PRAM didn't help it boot up. I stuck in a system 7.5 disk tools floppy and still got the same error. The...

Bit more information: It has 8MB soldered ram and a 32 mb expansion card. The hard drive runs 8.1 and I have a CF card running 7.5.5. When the sad mac hits it plays 4 clashing chimes that are most similar to the ones at 0:09 in this video but louder (a given) and harsher as well: ...

It could be caps, yeah. It looked quite clean last time I checked over it but it can't hurt to look again. Any ones in particular to look at? What else could cause it?

This is a sad post following my previous ones over the last week. The 5300 that I've got has been running flawlessly all the time I've had it and was fine this morning, but tonight when I tried to powder it up it threw a sad Mac and chimes of death. The error codes were 0000000f and 00000001. I...

Yeah, that does sound similar, except I never get to loading extensions or the like. It's just right after the welcome screen. However, I did some more poking about with different keywords on google and discovered a few things, mostly from this old thread of macrumors...

Yep, the CF card seems to be a good storage solution and for file transfers. Not needing a program to read it is also great. However, I've run into an issue. I put a 7.5.5 install on it and there wasn't any problems. Now, with the Hard drive on 8.1, I upgraded the CF card to match using a clean...

In a stroke of luck, a friend had a 4GB CF card with the PC card adapter and a USB writer laying around. He gave them to me and after backing up some stuff on it I got it formatted and running. I did a test boot of 7.5.5 on it, which worked perfectly. I basically cloned the System folder form...

Wow, thanks for of your help, guys. A wifi card would be great but it'd have to connect to WPA2 wifi or I'd have to put up a new WEP network which is something I haven't done before. I'd also probably need to find a list of compatible cards as well. My friend mentioned he has a PC card for...

As a few of you may know, I just got a slew (well, three) Powerbooks fairly recently, consisting of a 5300, 190, and 190cs. the 5300 currently is running 7.5.5 perfectly and I'm trying to get software onto it and was wondering what the best method for this is. Of course, I can write 1.44...

I wasn't thinking about doing that either. Also, A friend expressed interest in taking on this PowerBook as a running project so I may be passing it onto him with all the information about repairing it that I can, since he also has the tools to get work done on it. Thanks much for your help.

I'm back in town after a few days away and I cleaned the whole board. I can get the caps replaced after I find their specs, but I currently don't know them. It tries to boot every now and then (very sporadic and rare) with the correct boot noise but am extremely messed up contrast screen...

Alright, so I looked inside the PowerBook and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. A few bad to can caps in the cluster near the battery and one bad box-looking cap that got some goo on the board and on the legs of an IC. However, there was also corrosion on the legs of the CPU itself...

Yes, I both pressed it and held it with the computer plugged in and unplugged. There was no change. I didn't know about the light though, that's good to know! I'll pull it apart and clean it this evening and update more then.

I hate to double-post on my own topic but I removed the palmrest to snap some fairly high resolution photos of the problem area. I'm definitely going to try to clean this up tomorrow, I'm not sure how effective it'll be though. I'm gonna link the photos as opposed to inserting them because...

Well, I'm planning on taking it over to my friend's house (he has much much more equipment related to computer repairs than I do) and we'll pull it apart and see if anything comes of it. If it turns out to be truly dead and we've exhausted all leads, I'll save the ram/hard drive along with...

Just had a peek in there. There was a large splotch of green crystallized looking stuff on the metal right around the trackpad and the battery contacts themselvse were pretty nasty. It cleaned off ok (stupid me forgot to photograph it) but I'm pretty sure the battery did leak a fair bit. Is the...