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  1. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    I took it off , cleaned the area with iso , checked the continuity between all the vias under the chip to their local pads ........ all seems fine just took off U5 and did the same , all seems fine ......... put it all back and still grey screen the video memory is seperate from the onboard...
  2. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    went through everything in this thread , but it didnt help me might help someone else though https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/color-classic-no-power-issue-debunked.1285/#post-24248
  3. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    aparently this is an unsolved problem for CC's reading this thread https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/color-classic-motherboard-woes.2580/ same problem , except im getting a chime and the machine is booting ......... but screen is just grey , no mouse has ANYBODY !!!!! had this problem...
  4. falen6

    Color Classic uograde to Imac G3

    Got this color classic that i recapped and its giving problems ( previous posts) looking at upgrades. this guy put an Imac G3 logic board into a CC i have a 333mhz bondi blue imac with a damaged case seriously considering the mod does anyone know if this is possible - the guy talks...
  5. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    still have the problem - hasnt given a display for last few hours - pram reset not making any difference now ive checked all the caps with other new caps , and soldering is clean and accurate the amount of cap goo that was on this board when i got it was unreal i used liquid hand soap ...
  6. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    got a display with pram reset , by pressing command , option , P,R and power at the same time ........ but with artifacts on the display as the mouse moves i dont have a battery installed on logic board as i dont have a new one.......... machine powers with no battery installed - have read...
  7. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    have read that the 256k vram is the 2 chips next to the vram expansion slot - ive checked and reflowed them - still the same - i guess this is why the machine is booting regardless of the video problem took the back cover off to have a look - machine is very clean inside - checked the big slot...
  8. falen6

    Color Classic grey screen

    did you get this fixed as i just posted the same problem
  9. falen6

    color classic grey screen

    Hi folks. Got a color classic recently - powered it on and it chimed and gave the display of the flashing disk icon the logic board was in a terrible state - amazed it even chimed. recapped the board with tants and gave the board a much needed clean put it back in and powered it on - chimed...
  10. falen6

    Macintosh Color Classic with No Video (Chimes & Disk Activity)

    bad solder connections on A/B Bad connections from A/B
  11. falen6

    Mac plus Issue

    i had the same problem with an old SE recapped the analog board think it would fix it but it is exactly the same
  12. falen6

    Mosfet problem

    cheers ymk
  13. falen6

    Mosfet problem

    Im trying to fix a dodgy laptop - Looks like mosfet problem - Can anyone recommend a good forum for general electronics problems as this is not related to Apple products in any way
  14. falen6

    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    the 400 and 800k floppy drives used varying speeds that cant be replicated on the usb floppy but I have ( only last night ) downloaded an 800k image of system 6.08, wrote it with transmac and my se booted from it - it comes up on the mac as an 800k disk Again its something like stuffit - a...
  15. falen6

    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    no idea porta something that really gets me is when you transfer something in a .sit to the mac - run stuffit on it and it wont work - then you try different versions of stuffit ....... i have spent hours trying to get my head around it - as far as i can see you need stuffit 1.51 all the way up...
  16. falen6

    Mac Plus Bridge Machine

    I use a USB floppy drive on my PC and a small program called transmac. https://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm Transmac can format floppys ( 1.4 mb ) it can create images of mac floppies on your PC it can also write 800k images to floppys i use it to quickly get software from the internet onto...
  17. falen6

    Mac Classic - Floppy Drive Eject drive dont turn.

    take out the floppy drive and clean it. The ejection is driven by a motor and small gearbox the gears in these gearbox's break or get seized with old dried up grease to remove the gearbox there are 2 screws and the connector for the motor the gearbox lid just clips together - carefully pull...
  18. falen6

    Simulators

    Remembered some more I used to have Apachie Strike Harrier Strike Mission
  19. falen6

    Simulators

    oh yay ...... more titles - thanks people - iver never heard of road racer or splaters - great stuff I notice there are very little utube vids of Macintosh games , just a few top 10's etc On SubBattle alone I could make a 30 min vid explaining how to play it and how the game works. Looking...
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