Recent content by phunguss

I can't tell from the photos, if it is light reflection or jpeg artifacts, but the lower half of the board seems to be covered in a lot of flux. Some flux is conductive and corrosive. From the CPU down to the external connectors looks pretty covered to me. Get some IPA and a toothbrush or...

Dang! That is really honey glazed. Pink Flyod would be aghast. I usually just use a long needle-nose pliers to pull at it little by little. I guess it depends on how hard the stuff is. I have seen soft silicone stuff and super hard cement stuff.

So if you have the official apple adapter... it would go something like this: VGA output from computer - Standard VGA cable - Standard DVI-VGA adapter - - DVI Gender Changer (Female to Female) - This part you are likely missing. - Apple DVI to ADC - ADC LCD Monitor Big jumbled mess of...

These are all DVI options, but you should be able to adapt VGA to DVI. Dr. Bott DVIator with power supply. Often overpriced for what it is, you can technically build your own. I posted the pinout here. Apple made an official one called the M8661LL/B Apple DVI to ADC Display Adapter There...

Welcome! I don't think you mentioned if you had a desktop or tower. I have a desktop model with a different motherboard part number. But all the components seem to have the same labels on the silkscreen. No component at S1. And no markings on the tiny caps.

Here is my personal example... I used hot air to remove the ROM chips, and did alright on the left one, but the other two I was too aggressive and tore off several pads on each one.

Looks to me like residual solder. Using a standard soldering iron and solder wick should clean that off.

Ok, I am an idiot. It appears I was installing the daughter card UNDER the springs of the plastic holder on the front side of the motherboard. I was working on it in a darker corner of the room while the computer was on the floor and I am sitting in a chair. The daughter card has to clip into...

As it turns out, this machine had a bad PSU and I had utilized a modified PC power supply. I was going to sell this unit, and I fired it up again to make sure everything was fine, but it was not. Shortly after boot, it would freeze up. And I could not get it to boot/chime properly. I...

This is great documentation to hopefully keep others inspired to keep pushing through. Awesome job!

For the hinge pin, 2x 3" 10-32 screws and nuts (M5-0.8x70mm or 75 are the metric equivalent and will work interchangeably), The rest of the assembly was mostly salvage screws and bolts. The iPad mounting were tiny m1 or m2 wood type screws.

More case parts for G3 desktop series here.

It was historically only for the month of January, happening annually. It was started before I joined, but I think Mac-Yak started it.

What type of media are you using? Some readers/burners have different wavelength of lasers so they do not like certain + or - media, and if you are using RW, that may be an issue as well.

iFixit has many guides, this one is the basic, probably not far enough to swap the parts. But once you have the hinge removed, it should be pretty self explanatory.