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mac-man6 Junior Member Canada 217 Posts	Posted - 15 Mar 2003 : 14:56:39 My friend and I just picked up a LC 575 off a snow bank down on Bloor Street in Toronto. We got her back to a UofT residence but she doesnt want to turn on. When the power cable in you can hear the monitor power but there's no image, HD activity or chimes. I'm hoping that it's battery and we can have her for Spectre VR. Do you think it's the battery? Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6) ------------------ PowerCD, SE 4/40, Classic II 4/40, IIx 8/160, IIvi 8/260, Quadra 650 32/260, iMac 333 160/6G How you like d'em apples?!
QuadraJets Junior Member USA 344 Posts	Posted - 15 Mar 2003 : 20:46:27 The 5XX series uses soft power, the switch on the back won't make it turn on. If you haven't tried, plug a keyboard in and hit the power key. If you already did this, ignore everything I just mentioned. Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA Liberated: LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410 Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's Hotline mirror server: 68k.dyndns.org
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 15 Mar 2003 : 22:45:03 oh you might try to take the battery out, let it sit, and then when it's sat for awhile, power it up to the tune of with a keyboard...... this worked when I had gotten [basically the same machine, but labeled "performa 578"] --added when I thought more--- By the way: My unit did EXACTLY this stuff that you say yours does, all I had to do was use a keyboard to turn it on and I had to do the thing with the battery, I ended up not getting a new battery though... I dunno how that works out Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Edited by - cory5412 on 15 Mar 2003 22:48:09
mac-man6 Junior Member Canada 217 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2003 : 19:32:08 Great!, that should be cheaper and easier to get a hold of than a whole new battery. When I pulled out the logic board I noticed what looked like two expansion slots. One looked like a white nubus slot, by that I mean that the card that would fit there would have pins and there was another slot. It was brown and almost looked like pci slot because the card that would fit there would have direct contact along the edge of the card-no pins. Is the first slot the PDS slot and the second the comm slot?. Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6) ------------------ PowerCD, SE 4/40, Classic II 4/40, IIx 8/160, IIvi 8/260, PB 170 8/80, LC 475 20/160, LC 575 ?/160, Quadra 650 32/260, iMac 333 160/6G How you like d'em apples?!
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2003 : 20:07:51 Yup! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2003 : 20:19:35 Mine came with a modem, and I later added an LC ethernet card to it... but there's obviously LOADS of different cards that you can add to the darn little thing... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 16 Mar 2003 : 22:48:34 Hrm maybe its the psu... -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 09:51:35 naw, he just needs to play around with it a bit... I had mine almost 2 weeks before taking it to kyle's house and doing the battery thing... make sure that the battery is out for a long time and hang it by the cord off your pinky, walk into a radio shack and dance around suggestively that you need help finding a new battery, leave dissatisfied because you didn't get one (they dont' sell those ones BTW) and put it back into the machine a day or 2 later... it'll work... you could do EXACTLY what I did, and spill gasoline ALL overyourself at a chevron station... but that's kinda gross and has nothing to do with the performa... so you don't need to... I was GLAD that I had my wallet in a plastic baggie before I went there... why I had it in a baggie I'll never know though Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
mac-man6 Junior Member Canada 217 Posts	Posted - 26 Mar 2003 : 01:27:26 Turn's out all this LC needed was a french keyboard. She's up and running with 36mb of RAM and 160mb HD. It looks like the previous users were graphics students but they erased Illustrator and Quark. It's going to my trojan horse to the nerdy windows U of T engineers, loaded with Marathon, Duke Nukem and Spectre VR. Mu ha ha! Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6) ------------------ PowerCD, SE 4/40, Classic II 4/40, IIx 8/160, IIvi 8/260, PB 170 8/80, LC 475 20/160, LC 575 ?/160, Quadra 650 32/260, iMac 333 160/6G How you like d'em apples?!
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 26 Mar 2003 : 09:00:05 quote: Turn's out all this LC needed was a french keyboard. A "French" keyboard ?!?! Must have been an LC from Quebec -- I guess an English keyboard just wasn't good enough. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
mac-man6 Junior Member Canada 217 Posts	Posted - 26 Mar 2003 : 11:53:14 I took the keyboard from home actually. I'm not Quebecois but when I was buying my IIvi the crappy salesman passed off the french keyboard on me!. But it's saved an LC from a cruel life on the streets experimenting with drugs and other immoral acts... :D Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6) ------------------ PowerCD, SE 4/40, Classic II 4/40, IIx 8/160, IIvi 8/260, PB 170 8/80, LC 475 20/160, LC 575 ?/160, Quadra 650 32/260, iMac 333 160/6G How you like d'em apples?!
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 29 Mar 2003 : 01:23:11 hehehe all I needed to do to mine was jostle it around a bit and some other junk... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
boredomconquersall Full Member Canada 613 Posts	Posted - 29 Mar 2003 : 02:03:00 in my experience, macs respond to emotion and threats (EG... I petted my mac portable every day ofr 2 weeks, and then it started going again! joy of joys, and, I treataned my mac LCIII (which now has a home on my older cousin's desk) with destilled water, and it started working (still goes fine) HEHEHHEHEE THNxnx *too drunk to quote 10000Th poster and 1000Th topic creator in lounge. and remember, if you try and install mac OS 10.2 on an early G3, you will go insane, and aquire a thirst for blood!
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2003 : 06:03:21 yeah... make sure it thinks that it's pretty too... macs like to be pretty... this includes making room for it on your desk they respond to 'wuv' Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2003 : 08:39:24 quote: yeah... make sure it thinks that it's pretty too... macs like to be pretty... this includes making room for it on your desk they respond to 'wuv' That'd be tough in this "case," that's GOT to be just about the skankiest lookin' AIO design that Apple ever let out of the orchard. jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2003 : 15:41:47 quote: quote: yeah... make sure it thinks that it's pretty too... macs like to be pretty... this includes making room for it on your desk they respond to 'wuv' That'd be tough in this "case," that's GOT to be just about the skankiest lookin' AIO design that Apple ever let out of the orchard. jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF Easy for me though. Everyone knows what i think of the LC5xx series machines, right? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2003 : 16:19:53 quote: Easy for me though. Everyone knows what i think of the LC5xx series machines, right? There's obviously NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE! Those puppies even make basic black look just AWEFUL! IMHO, of course! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2003 : 06:02:47 Mine was a performa... there's just all that difference it was also a 578 yes, despite the fact that there is NO difference I only half like the way that they look... I think that (from AppleDesign) the thing that's halfway between an LC520 and a ColorClassic (I want to say the thing was called hook) is really cool. I also like the 5X00 series. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 15 Apr 2003 : 17:56:01 Cory, Hook was the codename for the LC/Performa 5xx case. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

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