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Welcome to the Army. It was thoughtful of you tp post the link, but be assured that electrolyte (not grease) spillage from failing capacitors is part-and-parcel of our common interest here. 'Capacitor goo' will get you 203 hits. 'MLB washing' gets 116 hits. 'Board washing' gets 1511 hits...

There are 33 existing hits to a search using 'backup' and 'battery' in these forums. This one is typical of those with relevance to your problem. Good luck. de

When you have your M0001 in front of you, opened with your new long-shafted Torx-15 and case-cracker, or Dog Cow's method above, you will be able to get a great deal of diagnostic info. from Mac128's http://www.mac128.com/m0001 to guide your investigations. The ROMs may be identified with the...

The System that you can get going on your Mac depends on the processor (a given), the amount of installed RAM (the Mac's name is a dead giveaway) and the kind of startup volume you can create for the Mac. Without a RAM upgrade to at least 1MB (Dove MacSnap, scarce), don't aim any higher than...

Then again, looking through the large end of the telescope, you could be one dry joint away from a working analogue/power-sweep board. As near as dammit, most of the advice that you have received points towards rescue of the board—which is designed to drive the Classic's CRT—as the first...

No question posted on my birthday deserves to go permanently unanswered. Whether it is perverse or inverse, though, I shall address your third (and un-numbered question) first. Yes. You have been rumbled. Trying to get us to believe that you were asking two questions when there were really...

That makes perfect sense. Thank you for posting that addition, otherwise I might have been forced to reconsider either my experience or the rationality of the SCSI gods in allowing interruption of the High Bytes to go unpunished. de

A fine acquisition at an even finer price. The Kansas-boarded 9600s are well worth picking up at any time, and capable of supporting many useful PCI cards and drives. Enjoy! Unless you plan never to use VM, just keep in mind that 1GB of RAM is as far as you need to go, the existence of 128MB...

Agreed. As you wrote, a model of disclosure and unhyped description. And, as a machine that worked for its keep, there needs to be no apology for its upgrades, nor any sense that the Mac is somehow inferior or untrue to its origins. That security slot was a prime candidate for re-education to...

As a generality, one change of pinning between MLB (or HBA) and drive, and even then preferably increasing in magnitude, is workable. Thus an MLB (or HBA) with DB-25 can support 50-pin cables, with or without 68-pin or 80-pin adapters and drives. The converse: a 50-pin drive attached to a...

An OS 9 Install disc won't even 'see' the drive if OS 9 drivers were not installed when the drive was formatted, and before OS X was installed. You can install OS 9 into the same partition as OS X after the event, but it will be available only to run in Classic Mode. All is not lost however...

If HDST does not show that the drive is 'not ready' in the Scan window, you can probably believe that you have a software problem. I'm no authority on Fujitsu drives (only one of >100-odd that I have is Fujitsu, and it worked out-of-the package from an eBay seller), but I suspect that yours...

A good catch, even without a working PSU. My dual 1GHz is a fine machine, and plenty fast enough for all but the number-crunchingest needs. My MDD cost six times (in AUD) as much as yours, and blew its PSU six weeks later. It's up and running again with one of two NOS 400W PSUs that I was...

My yeller-feller, piece o' cheese or whatever claims, on the reverse or hub side, MADE IN JAPAN and 5 in separate incuse mouldings. '5' may be a mould identification or a revision number. On the obverse or label side is moulded relief text in Japanese, English and French. Apart from the...

An interesting codicil to the Item linked above is that, as of this moment (13:55 Tue 13 Jan 2009 GMT) the relevant selling page discloses the curt 'This item has ended.' without any comment as to a sale or a withdrawal. de Correction. Further down the page is the statement: 'The seller...

Semantics is one of the concerns of law, so I make no apology for pointing out the difference between slander and libel, their contexts, and that 'defamation' cannot affect a reputation that does not exist or is already at its nadir. Beyond that, to fear consequences of the expression of...

... if the machine has more than such-and-such MB installed while it is active, which is something that Apostrophe needs to be aware of. de

Before we get carried away in a pointless thread, let us be sure of what it is that is being discussed. First, slander is oral in nature, and libel is written. In law and in usage, if it can be proven so, both have available the defence that they are true in content. Some of the content in...

Macally is generally quite forthcoming with its software. You don't mention what OS (8, 9 or X) you have in the MT, but if you cannot find something here the situation is indeed dire. If a Macally card relies on native Apple software, some idea of the OS concerned will help your helpers...

Is the CD in reasonably good nick, or scratched and scuffed to billy-oh? It's worth your while to inspect the data surface with a glass for deposits as well as for scratches, and to wash it with tepid water and a little toilet soap. After carefully blotting the CD dry with a soft towel, let it...