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Hi all, I was recently given a powerbook 5300cs that was working fine until one day it would not turn on at all when connected to power. As a fix, I tried 1.) desoldering and resoldering the power jack connector on the motherboard, as that is a common source of power problems, and 2.) replacing...

Hi all, My 6100 has had two major issues recently: 1. When I try to start it up (still chimes and zuluscsi is installed with 7.5.5), the 6100 freezes at startup. 2. When I try to reset it, the 6100 enters a boot loop, where it will keep chiming and attempting to reboot but never goes past...

Hello, I had some issues connecting SCSI and IDE hard drives on my Powermac G3 Beige Desktop and wanted to get some feedback on possible solutions/causes. My G3 contains an internal/external SCSI port and 2 different IDE ports. There is an IDE CD drive connected. Any time I try connecting a...

Hi all, I need some help/advice on troubleshooting a Powerbook G4 15” Aluminum. I replaced the logic board and original hard drive when I got it, and since then, have noticed the following issues: The G4 on OSX Tiger will always freeze after about 3 minutes, usually triggered by me opening an...

Hi all, I wanted to ask for some troubleshooting advice because I am losing my mind trying to figure out what is wrong with a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver I recently got. First, this G4 came with the original hard drive installed. I decided to flash a OS X 10.4 installer to a USB drive and...

Hi everyone, I recently got a Mac clone (Power Computing PowerCenter Pro 180 to be exact). There is a very strange issue I am encountering though: although the computer will sound the Mac chime on bootup, the video output will not display at all. I have tried using different monitors (both...