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I've on occasion, melted the end of an in-expensive plastic pen onto a screw and let it dry for a ghetto screwdriver, in cases where i wasn't spending upwards of a fiver for what may have been a single use item. Its only really safe to do if there isn't anything sensitive around the screws location.

In regards to the original situation, might be worth plugging a VGA cable into the back to be sure that it is the screen thats not working

Imma guess that this is where the background theme of Barrack came from as well. Always wondered if there was a longer version out there, but how do you find a needle in a haystack?

Just tried my 400mhz Powerbook G3 gets to a useable desktop in approx 75 seconds. Stock extentions plus a handful more The annoying bit if having to hold the little reset button for 10ish seconds, it wont boot unless thats done. Amusingly enough, my 1ghz TiBook takes 98 seconds to do it, same...

I feel your annoyance with this one, had a G4 iMac back in the day which got swamped with evil little bugs when the wheat in the adjacent field was harvested. They flocked to anything white. Two got into the center of the screen, but looking down through the transparent plastic around the top of...

Hi All Anyone able to diagnose whats up with the example linked below? I'm not interesting in buying (although it is a relatively blemish free case which is uncommon) I guess im just curious, the image its outputting is bizarre Failing Graphics chip perhaps? Cheers...

Regarding popping a fully blown 040 in there, its probably not on the cards. There are a few logic boards on US ebay but the prices seem to be the same as what I paid for the entire unit, and then the same again to ship it out here, in comparison to the ethernet card which was quite keenly...

I got the card linked earlier in the thread. Seems good, and if the floppy with the driver is duff, its not an issue as someone popped it on the garden. It's ability to record with the AV card is interesting, but it looks like its limited to 240 so it doesn't have much use. I have an EyeTV...

To be honest, the units right next to me when I use it. I can't see a remote being much use :p But, my Ethernet card is on the way so good news there.

Maybe i'll try getting the Wii U Gamepad to talk to it :p

Yea I noticed that, theres a bit of discoloration where it sat. Theres a long number in pen on one of the unused slots which might be it.

Here be the back. Can you tell from this?

Right, i'v now been able to find out how to do this. Desktop patterns gives off the impression that you can drag and drop because the pattern area gets a blue ring around it when you hover a pic over it, this isn't the way i did it. I used an image editor (colour mac cheese) and the select tool...

Plugged a Gamecube into the video in port because why not looks dreadful, but I love that I can do that. Interestingly, no noticeable input lag at all either I figured with the help of color mac cheese i would add something caught from the video in to the desktop patterns selection :p The...

Many thanks for the assistance and suggestions here, its definitely sped up the speed of which i'v gotten this running by at least a factor of 4. I have it outputting 832x624 to my cheap AOC LCD. No doubt i'll jump down should something require thousands. Had a look at it's components, its got...

I installed 7.6 with the CD, however when trying to boot from the HD afterwards, I got the questionable floppy. I ran out of time to try other things but i'll be having another nab at it this evening. One theory I have is that the boot volume might be too big, i hear that pre System 8 boot...

From what ive read, the 630s had the fiddly finger twister of a combo to boot from disk, its still looking at the hard disk when I hold down C, but I get the question mark floppy when I hold Ctrl, Cmd, Shift, Delete Giving the restore CD a download, seems to be in a windows friendly ISO...

Got it today, popped a hard disk in (had an OS9 install on it) and it recognised it. Im now working on getting a bootable OS onto it. Tries burning Mac gardens 7.6 retail image first. Command Option Shift Delete to boot from CD and regrettably it couldn't find it. I don't know if its the disk...

This is all good news, I figured i'd be looking for a specific kind of multiple scan display or something fiddly. I'm unlikely to tinker with this as unfortunately i'm not that technical. Moving the resisters around sounds simple enough but i'm thinking its something I'll do sometime down the...

I'm picking up a Performa 630 sometime next week, an Ex University machine. So i'll need to start thinking about getting a screen that will work with it. The unit comes with a cable to connect it's DA-15 to DE-15 and i'v seen a snap of it running happily with this cable on a 3x4 LCD screen...