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As for past couple of weeks we have seen people trying out CHRP enablers for Macintosh. I have experienced with it with my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet running Sonnet G3 500mhz. What I have found; System 7.1 - crashes/unstable, could not show monitors etc System 7.5.3 - unstable. System 7.5.5 - I...

Something is baffling me – I have a little problem with my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet with Sonnet G3 500mhz, If I pick an OS to startup with ie. I’m in Mac OS 8.1 and I would like to switch it to Mac OS 8.6, then the OS is selected and go to restart, it will restart back to Mac OS 8.1 and even tho...

Hey all - I recently just rebuilt new set of PRAM batteries for my PowerBook 1400/166, It has dual PRAM batteries in it (only 166 models has dual pram batteries), but I've came into a drama with it... I copied and made new pack with rechargeable VL2330 batteries, from old one using the original...

Spot the difference! I recently bought this PowerBook G3 Wallstreet - very specific purchase because I had Sonnet 500mhz G3 card to go for it, it does not work in PowerBook G3 PDQ. This is PowerBook G3 Wallstreet CPU, one is stock 292mhz and other one is 350mhz appears to be overclocked...

I have this PowerBook G3 Wallstreet - what cringes me with it is when I open the lid - its very very stiff compared to my PowerBook G3 PDQ - it feels like I will break it but I have been opening it very slowly.... How stiff is too stiff that could break something? What was the resolution to...

G'day all, I have this iBook Clamshell and I did logicboard swap, I had 466mhz board & DVD drive from very brittle/cracked body - into 366mhz unit. The 366mhz unit is Lime iBook and the Logicboard is from Graphite body. From memory - I knew it'll boot up unique GUI interface to match the body...

G'day all, I am trying to set up BlueSCSI v2 WIFI in my Macintosh LC475. Specs; LC475 running on full 68040 25mhz, 32mb RAM, full VRAM, nothing else is connected. BlueSCSI - SanDisk 64gb ExFAT formatted (even tried formatting the SD card in PC, and using SD Card App as well) its not SD card at...

G'day all, what are the chances to get 1mb L2 cache for my 6100/66 DOS compatible model. Trying to give it boost as much possible. Cheers AP

Morning all, I have this new BlueSCSI v2 internal in my Power Mac 6100 DOS Compatible for now at the moment - been in it for past 2 weeks as I am slowly building up the system more focused for DOS environment. Last night I decided to connect SCSI2SD to get some files off it from other Mac, When...

PowerBook G4 1.67ghz DL last PowerBook G4s 17” - has anyone rebuilt this battery in this PowerBook? It used to run for more than 2 hours, and now it won’t even run for 2 minutes - Ive already tried reset technique. I haven’t even found new battery for it - it would have been nice if I was able...

G'day all, I really LOVE both of my PowerBook 3400 and Kanga but I am not using it because of the battery. I don't want to plug to powerpoint just to use it as I might as well use the desktop mac if I do that hence I don't use it. HAS anyone came up a solution to rebuild the battery for it? I...

I have this Quadra 840av board, it isn't working at this stage and I noticed two capacitors are missing on the bottom of the board suspected rough handling. On the underside on the battery end side; C399 C397 Really keen to fix this board up. Does anyone know what voltage/value they would...

Afternoon all, I have this Backlit Macintosh Portable, it has been recapped professionally 2 years ago, and it was working 100%, 2 months ago when I last used it (removed the battery before I put it away) and this weekend I thought I'd have a play with, it won't fire up at all - not even chime...

G'day all,  I have two PowerBook G4 1.67ghz 17"  DLSD Laptops. One of the 17" battery is no good/has less than 2 mins of charge left on it and other one has good charge. Saw the prices online of what is available and its too expensive. I was wondering if anyone has any success re-celling...

G'day all, I have this PowerBook G3 PDQ which the LCD needs replacing badly - its horrible wash out. I saw this thread for Pismo LCD swap - does anyone know what the best next alternative swap would be? Thank you Cheers AP

Good evening all, Tonight I accidently broke the CRT while removing the hard drive/floppy and I cracked it. I have another spare CRT from Macintosh Classic, but it had different Yoke's connector. SO I decided to swap over the yoke over to working CRT, but I haven't fired it up - I will resume...

Can someone confirm with me - (both 1.67ghz models0 will 15" a1138's keyboard will work in 17" a1139 model? Thanks all  Cheers AP

As we cannot get new batteries for them anymore, has anyone rebuilt those TiBook batteries and get good hours out of them? Cheers AP

Good morning all,  I have been working on my 3rd Quadra 840av, It arrived to me as non working. The 1st one - recapped - no issues and is working 100% 2nd Quadra 840av - recapped by someone else, and I've recapped it myself in case an capacitor isn't working, but lots of rotted traces, still...

Evening all,  As I have recapped and fully working Power Macintosh WGS 6150/66. Since the hard drive had been removed by previous owner who sold it to me, It came from an Doctors Surgery with a few other macs as well, and I couldn't tell what it had in it, I would like to resurrect of how it...