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    TiBook Screen Assembly - the forbidden split?

    Hi, I just wondered if anyone here had successfully split and re-bonded a Titanium Powerbook G4 screen assembly without ruining the shells. I have one with a really good lid that has a wonky LCD panel and I was wondering if I could split it to either fix the issue or replace the panel but I am...
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    Save my Mac Pro 3,1 - PSU failure etc

    So, to update this thread, I obtained another Mac Pro 1,1 - 3,1 power supply and the same thing happens. I pulled the CPUs and they were absolutely awash with thermal grease. Took some cleaning up! I also noticed the side door has a huge coffee spill stain down it. I disconnected all the fans...
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    Save my Mac Pro 3,1 - PSU failure etc

    I split the PSU open and found something interesting. All the cables break up into 3 distinct groups. One small cluster attaches to the upper board alongside the high-voltage side. One group of fairly thing wires attaches to a riser board on a plug. The remainder (all 12V and ground as far as I...
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    Save my Mac Pro 3,1 - PSU failure etc

    Okay I found this diagram on a forum that seems to agree with the previous one in terms of 12V and Ground locations sbd seens to give the rest. More importantly, it also gives a location for the PWR_ON Pin that might lead me to be able to hot-wire the PSUs I have to read the voltages...
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    Save my Mac Pro 3,1 - PSU failure etc

    Hi, Long story short I bought a Mac Pro 3,1 a while back for very little money and it worked then it didn’t. I chalked it up to bad luck and scrapped it. I bought another one yesterday, with 2 3.2 Quad-cores and 32GB RAM BUT it’s also dead. No fans, no power LED, and no chime. Powers up for...
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    netatalk 2.x Shenanigans (Debian 12 ‘bookworm’)

    So, I have been working through building and using netatalk 2.3 on Debian 12 (bookworm) on my Mac mini server. I will share my progress so far and carry on discussions here: So far I have: Successfully cloned out the 2.3 branch, built it and installed it. N.B.: if you are a little confused...
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    Lombard / Pismo CD & DVD module drive replacement and 'Master' IDE Hack

    I have taken in 4 later Powerbook G3s (2 Lombard, 2 Pismo) and had a really rough time with DVD Drive modules for these. Out of 3 I've had three have been dead. Not surprising as they got heavy use in laptops of that era and the lasers are likely taco'd in them by now. I setout when I got my...
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    Zip 100 Plus - SCSI Mode and Termination

    For the future edification of people who might have run into this issue, if you use a Zip100 Plus (the Parallel Port / SCSI autodetecting version) on a SCSI port, the SCSI bus is left unterminated. This will often cause issues with the SCSI bus crashing (in my case on a Mac LC475) and no devices...
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    ATTO UL3D / UL4D SCSI Pains

    Yeah unfortunately that’s the same point I started out at. Needing the flash files and they aren’t on archive.org. Grrrr.
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    ATTO UL3D / UL4D SCSI Pains

    Ooop - I guess we both hot that at the same time xD
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    ATTO UL3D / UL4D SCSI Pains

    This looks promising https://web.archive.org/web/20030801225335/http://www.attotech.com/software/osxconfigtool.html
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    ATTO UL3D / UL4D SCSI Pains

    Unfortunately, the guy has long since lost the CD ROM and this is all he has. It's very good to know the White Papers detail it is possible. That's extremely encouraging. I just need to find the OS 9 updater.
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    ATTO UL3D / UL4D SCSI Pains

    (I posted this a couple other places, so apologies if you've seen this elsewhere, and I got some info that may or may not be useful, see end of post) Hi, I have a number if New World G3/4 PowerMacs and I am trying to get hold of a SCSI card to use some late 80-pin U320 drives with tgat works...