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So quick note, even with a pinout I have my doubts about an FPD card working with VGA. The native resolution is 640x870 at (usually) 64 or 68 kHz.  Even if you can see something on the screen, it's going to look terrible unless someone made a VGA portrait CRT. While not super useful, if I get a...

I'd personally recommend replacing with ceramic or tantulum if possible. The electeolyrics are very prone to leaking again hence so few people use them in recaps. If you look through the forums you'll find many threads on doing so. As far as tolerance though, as long as it's an equal or higher...

Absolutely repairable. New CPU for sure but the logic board looks pretty good. I don't see any eaten traces or corrosion around other ic pins. It will need a recap though but that's typical of any 68k Mac with the SMD electrolytic caps.

Oh I see. Couldn't tell there were two links on my phone. Ignore me.

When you say replaced with SMD, are they still the silver cans or a small brick? The silver cans are original and would need replaced.

LS120 did get a little love by Dell at least. Various laptops and towers had an LS120 option, such as the Latitude C series or Precision 210 or some Dimension XPSs. Other than that, it was all aftermarket support. The LS120 drives do make pretty nice plain floppy drives though. They write...

A IIcx is an '030 so a socketed '040 adapter wouldn't do much good.

Yes you can, just make sure polarity is correct. Capacitors have progressed a lot over the years leading to smaller needed sizes for the same value.

I seen this on Craigslist for $10 and just had to have it. For those of you who don't know, Marathon Computer was a company who made rack mount things for Apple computers. Whether rack ears for your Powermac G4 or an entire case for your 9600. In this case, a 1U rack chassis for an iMac G3 DV...

RE Clock: This is going to sound dumb, but have you checked the battery? If the battery is getting low it's going to drift.

It may just be that the power lines or something aren't making contact so it's not even recognizing there's something in the slots. It's hard to tell without removing them to see what's going on. Unfortunately finding replacements can be a bit more difficult, I'm not sure if anyone still makes...

I've actually got a similar issue with my v5 board. If power is improperly removed, it corrupts the OS. When attempting to boot from it you'll get happy mac -> back to grey screen -> happy mac -> repeat. Doesn't matter if it's system 6 or system 7. Only real fix I had was to recopy the...

If you've got a long enough cable you can. With a double connector cable and a molex splitter you could even do hard drive and cd off the internal connector, just can't mount the CD.

The real issue with the IBMs is they have their own non-removable motherboard cache and as such don't like having it on the CPU. If I had a G3 ZIF without any cache it just might work. No idea on how they handle multiplier. They were offered in two different versions, a 233 MHz 604 and the 375...

Worthy of note on the IBM computers with a ZIF: They're just a CPU card without any cache or anything. Good chance it's just the 60x bus directly on the pins from the CPU, possibly even in the same pinout as the BGA chip. If someone wants to grab one and desolder the chip, it'd be possible to...

I'd go ahead and try finding another install image and see if it works instead. Sometimes the discs will mount but not boot. Sometimes they'll boot on one system but not another. Another alternative if you have a USB IDE adapter is to use sheepshaver (or emulator of choice) to install the OS...

Do you have any other systems to try the CD with? Being a home burnt CD it's entirely possible the issue is with the CD rather than the system itself. It'd be worth tracking down another image (even if it's another version) and see if it works.

Here's my method of doing it easily:  There're a few other ways if you dig around the forums, although I had various levels of success using them. The Wiebetech ROM is easy to flash but it won't work under classic Mac OS. The Seritek ROM is a bit more difficult to flash but it'll work with...

^ That's the kind of situation with a GFCI (RCD) should've helped. The chassis on an ATX PSU is almost always directly grounded and the short to case would've tripped it over.

In that case, the cache dimms are compatible between all the PCI macs to the best of my knowledge. Trying to find a 1MB one is a bit difficult though, all the ones I've had were 256K or 512K.