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@Fizzbinn kindly mailed me the print he made of this bezel, the results are pretty good! Here are a few shots of the jaz drive with it's original box I got it in. The disk was unopened so I don't believe this drive was ever used, the SCSI cable was still neatly factory wrapped as well. Thanks...

Wow! Thank you everyone!

I ran across this thread previously, but the models I see are for the mini tower not the desktop case: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/power-macintosh-bezels-9600-g3.3221/

Here's the 1.1 version of the stl file if someone wants to attempt to stitch the two models together. @Fizzbinn would you be able to provide the measurements of your bezel at your convenience?

It'd be neat to have a version of this with the larger opening as an option. I know very little about 3D modeling/printing, unfortunately. Maybe just printing the blank and taking a dremel to it is this quickest route… 😆

Does anyone know anything about the bezel seen in this photo? It's from an auction on shopgoodwill.com and I've never come across a bezel like this for the Desktop G3 case before. I have an internal SCSI Jaz drive I've been planning to use without a cover plate because the disks are larger than...

I have 4 IIfx boards I’m in the process of recapping for a friend. The cap kits I ordered came with replacements for all of the factory-installed tantalums, but the only tantalum I was planning to replace is C1 with a 35V 47uf cap I have. I’m wondering if I should I replace all of them with new...

Well, this board was previously working before I washed and re-capped it. Afterwards, the issue was that it would boot, but only without RAM SIMMs installed which left it with only the 1MB onboard RAM. At first, I was suspicious of the RAM buffer chips, so I swapped those with another board. No...

Small update: I've been booting from a BlueSCSI V2 and I setup a new image with a minimal install of 7.1 to try out. There are no video artifacts afaict and Snooper has been running the 20 pattern RAM tests all afternoon with no errors. I'll have to try a full install of 7.1 and maybe a...

After failing to find any further broken traces, I decided to soak the board in IPA yesterday for about 8 hours. There was starting to be a fair amount of flux residue left over so I wanted to rule out that a dirty board was exacerbating things. I let it dry over night and booted it this morning...

I am dealing with a IIsi exactly like this and have gone through the exact same steps! 😭

Yeah, the cap goo on C7 made me extremely suspicious of all the 74ALS651's, especially after @Hugotronics comment. I swapped all of them with chips from a board that I know has working video and I haven't found any broken traces between those chips and the NUCHIP, RAM SIMMs, etc. It does seem...

Some progress made. In a bout of frustration I started following some traces in other parts of the board I haven't scoured over yet. When I got to the barcode, I noticed it was covering the traces near C19 and it had some suspicious looking discoloring right near the edge of the label. I lifted...

Congrats on your success @DevyDevly! I was working on my board last night, I ended up replacing every 74ALS651 with chips from a Mac II with working video and no change, so that doesn’t appear to be the root issue. I measured some of the replacement caps and noticed they were under voltage...

Hello fellow Seattleite! Coincidentally, I have a Desktop G3 300 I was thinking about just today. I found it on CL, the previous owner also picked it up from RE-PC. It came with 768MB of RAM, 6MB VRAM, DVD, and the AV IO card (which is the main reason I picked it up). I used it recently with a...