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I am sure we are taking at same angle. See the location of the speaker connector as well as the power supply. I think mine is wrong if yours is working. The PLCC is on the back on mine. I am going to switch it and see what happens. Wish me luck. Well, I looked a little harder and on mine...

Well I installed it with the front pointing to the front but it does appear backwards to your version. I wonder if trying it the other way would harm anything.

Stand alone. Purchased a couple of years ago. Put the machine aside for a while. I do remember it had the problem originally. The computer had and expansion card when I got it. Forget how much RAM was on it. I think 512K. Anyway, I know there were some jumpers or resistors on the Macintosh...

Reworking an App IIgs I bought awhile ago. Never was able to get the GGlabs memory card to show more than 2MB. I have the ROM 01 version of the computer. Is that perhaps the issue? The site does not indicate that being a problem. Other than that the system works fine. Any thoughts on...

Is there a good video out there for repairing the sticky parking problem on a SCSI drive? I got multiple drives to read following @techknight video on temporary repair but have not found something that shows me how to fix the problem more permanently.

I really appreciate the focus that the forum provides. discord just seems like an entertainment feed. I checked out your playlist and plan to investigate it completely. I think I am a bit old school too. I have many more puzzles to solve You have been more than helpful. I will return.

Got the ”Classic II” buttoned up for now. CC with 550 board. The system installer for 7.1 still did not work. Not giving up though. Have 7.6.1 on scsi 0. Have 7.1 with 403 enabler on scsi 4. Also have 7.1.2 with WiFi setup on scsi 1. I figured with the 550 board, plenty of disk space, and 36mb...

That is why I don't ask a lot of questions here. I really spend a lot of time trying to answer my own questions. But I use this resource a lot and check it almost daily. Someday I hope I can help people too. I am an old computer user but a pretty new electronics repair person. About 5...

@Fizzbinn Oh, what a great resource. I know there were enablers but I did not know the purpose. You nailed it. I have a 550 board in there and did 7.1 from the Legacy CD for the Color Classic. I have to look but I do not think it offered for the Color Classic II. I have a regular working...

I have successfully got my Blue SCSI in the machine. for some reason it does want to boot from 7.1. Message says I need to update the software to a newer version. Did a new install of 7.1 on a mounted HD from the legacy CD. All went well. I did the 3.0 update as well. No luck. I was able to...

Oh, I never would have thought that but the link to Eric says it all. Thank you so much @JDW. I am playing with two of these and really appreciate your videos. Extremely detailed. But isn't that how we all learn. I have a long way to go and am a newbie but I am finding success. Thanks again.

I have a Color Classic with a Performa 550 board in it. What would be the best system software for it. I also have the straight up Color Classic board. Same question. I am putting a Blue SCSI in and as it needs so much assembly to get to the HD I would like to have it ready to go before...

Oh that makes sense. Thank you so much. Not sure how it attaches. did I accidentally break it off of something? I will open the PowerBook tomorrow and get a good look. I have the service manual too. Probably will never use but I do like to get them back to full working order. OK. Just...

Took apart a PowerBook 5300 and after reassembly I found this on the table. The laptop appears to be working so I have no idea if this came out of it or fell off something else I had been working on. Any ideas? It has no traces coming out of it. Just two switches and a cable plug in for it...

The schematic shows it connecting to pin 32 which says "bypass". The trace is missing but I was able to check another board and there is continuity there. So what the heck would "bypass" mean? I am going to ignore the via as it seems irrelevant. I am going to run a wire from C149 to that pin...

I am needing to repair C149. I see where it connects to what the schematic says is pin 32 although that is not what I count it out to be. But my big issue is the via. Where does it go? I checked the back and it seems to be a dead end. There is a test point referenced on the schematic. I know...

All working as advertised. Got the Mac up into the house closer to the router and it all worked like clockwork. The case does have a dramatic effect but with a stronger signal, all is good. I was chasing my tail a little not realising how weak my wifi is in the basement. Thanks to all for the...

That is an interesting thought. Ok, a little update. I did reinstall Open Transport just for good measure. I also unplugged an old airport expresss I use in the basement (yes, another one of those Old Mac caves!!) as an extender for plugging in ethernet. Now when I try to connect to the...

Yes. Jumper is on and I also tried jumping the pass thru just to see if it mattered. Not exactly sure of the purpose of that but it did not affect it. In all other aspects the BlueSCSI is working fine. I believe my problem may be wifi signal strength. With the 5v usb plugged into the actual...

Not really sure how the power gets from the Berg connector to the Pico but that seems to be the glitch. Directly plugging a 5v usb to the Pico does the trick But not the Berg connector going into the Blue SCSI itself. I did not assemble the unit myself but bought it assembled. Nothing else is...