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I am finding that that era of video card is not aging well. Lots of RAM failures (to be fair, several were already dying of that years ago), and people carelessly shipping them around resulting in cracked solder balls/failed pads and the like. Not sure what your basic check comprised, but I've...

SR1 and SR2 are the shunts proper. Laptop batteries (and other smart/managed batteries) often have a heated fuse that the BMS has control over. If the pack goes outside spec beyond a given margin, the BMS can blow that fuse on command to isolate the cells. Now, I've never poked at a G3 pack, but...

🤨 yeah right

Now to run a test print of this and see how badly I screwed up the guesstimated measurements for the contact block area

You can easily avoid seeing it. Scroll on by. Go do your own thing. There is a meme that could go on here but the tone isn't really appropriate for this forum. Is it really? Or are you just coopting someone else's hobby and telling them how to go about it?

There is no correlation between knowing or not how to write software and understanding or not what the AI is doing. Like I said before, it is a force multiplier, and force can have a positive or negative magnitude. You, OTOH, have shown nothing but jumping on a bandwagon you don't really...

Nope, as Apple didn't publish Manufacturer Part Numbers for the components, and it's not self-evident on the crystal. The ERS for the RTC does provide us with a clue of what it may be, though:

That can be inferred. Take the advice, sternly-worded as it may be, and think some more before posting. You can do better. You have nothing to gain by trying to be edgy, especially so in a technical forum. Quite the opposite really, it's cringy and doesn't foster any goodwill towards you. Aim...

I'm assuming you're also not able to look for the 1Hz tick signal on RTC pin 2, then? FWIW, measuring directly at a crystal can be hit or miss (although it'll generally work fine it could be that the scope probe will load the oscillator circuit down and skew or stop it). Also, I'm not sure how...

I like flush cutters to snip them above the base. My reasoning is that twisting is no different from pushing the caps from side to side, which puts a load on the pads that they were not meant to support, and the compromised bonding between copper and fiberglass caused by the corrosion could make...

Excellent - glad that was of help!

Plague caps tend to vent, not leak (which I guess is much better as it doesn't do a lot of corrosion damage) - but yeah, they're why eMacs are dropping like flies, and why early iMac G5s were troublesome even within their original intended service lives.

Preface: I don't expect you to learn anything from the following comment - someday someone will knock you a few pegs down, but it won't be an internet comment on a forum. Knowing when to shut up is obviously not a skill you possess yet, and if you're lucky enough to maybe someday grow up and...

You mean, like you do?

No, that's not the correct part - it is through-hole. It should be possible to still get the original jack to stick well, even with the mounting pins broken. You may need to use some header pins as reinforcement.

Not a problem with claude per se, more of a problem with the files containing a bunch of invalid syntax that doesn't open in either of the kicad installs I have here (and being still broken after me manually patching them a bunch) :) To be honest, there's not a lot to review here, and a lot...

1) your miniDIN wasn't corroded. You could solder that back on 2) Those inductors are hot because there's something drawing too much current. (see 4) 3) That diode looks cooked and seems to have reflowed itself a few times. 4) You probably have a short downstream of it 5) Please don't start...

If it chimes, it is very hard that it'd be a power issue stemming from the socket. Do make sure that it's solid anyway. Does the programmer switch work fine? As in, measuring it with the machine open, is it consistently open when not pressed?. Are you in a place subject to static buildup? (Dry...

Were these kicad files... written by AI?

Silicon gets smaller=fewer electrons fall out between the (now-smaller) gaps=less loss as heat and higher clocks This may sound like a silly explanation, but that's basically how it works, oversimplifying it. Also, you do know people have been pushing G59Y/E41J 060s to well past 70MHz (100 for...