Recent content by Scouter3D

Hi @techknight , without your perfect repair-videos this would not have been possible! Thanks a lot!!!! Cheers, TOM:0)

You won´t believe it! Now it also boots from BlueSCSI... The BlueSCSI was not fried from the overvoltage... NO! It was simply badly soldered from the original manufacturer => On Pin of the SDcard slot was not solderd at all! (I guess it was barely "touching" because it appears to have worked...

Hi and Eureka! after soldering everything back and patching up the bad VIA the Portable has the correct voltages, recognizes the battery and its charging-level, boots from Floppydisk even without an external PSU attached... NICE :0) Sadly, it will not boot from the BlueSCSI but that may be...

Hi, i am currently working on it... i will keep you updated if this fixes the problem... Cheers, TOM:0)

I have removed two more smd chips and found no more corroded traces... :0) Find a picture attached for future reference of the traces under the chips... so you can check for continuity without removing the chips... Red: Topside, Blue: Bottomside Cheers, TOM:0)

I have watched all the videos from @techknight regarding mac portables, => very informative and a great help!!!!! Thanks! In one video he removes a few of the smd chips and finds cap-rot beneath... I thought the area looked fine, but decided to remove the resistor-array => and found at least...

Hi, i just started meassuring around with the osci and i found that +5V is not +5V but 6.something with a lot of ripple... :0( Cheers, TOM:0)

Hi, my name is Tom and this is my first post in this forum. I run a small online homecomputermuseum site and i repair a lot of vintage computers. Now, i am in the process of fixing a non working Macintosh Portable M5126 for a friend After recapping and fixing 3 broken traces / Vias the mac...