Recent content by Mark (Millennium Macs)

Hi, Due to a Rookie mistake I made during recapping my LC475 board, I pulled the +ve pad off the board at C35 (rear of the board by the RAM slot). There's no pad or trace left to bodge wire to on the top surface, the trace was only 2mm long and dives right into a via that I'm struggling to...

A Thing I designed a while back and finally got around to fitting and testing today. https://github.com/MDBenson/G4MDD_SFXMount/

Hey there, joevt, didn't realise you were on here too :) I'm MDBenson on macrumours, the guy you did the 64k 7800GT Mac ROM for. i have a 'single sided' Rev A00 card, has to do with the RAM density, my card doesn't have the RAM chips on the back and the 'L' shaped heat spreader. I used a...

Hi, I made a boo-boo. I tried to flash a supposedly compatible Mac ROM onto a Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 card to use in a G5 PCIe model. It didn't work and now the card is bricked. Does anyone in the UK have the equipment and skills to lift the ROM off the PCB and refresh it. It's an Atmel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Ooop - I guess we both hot that at the same time xD

This looks promising https://web.archive.org/web/20030801225335/http://www.attotech.com/software/osxconfigtool.html