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Day 13 PowerBook 3400c 200MHz has a 32Mb expansion card. i would get some random memory errors, but after reseating it a couple times and letting it all warm up, they finally went away. Found a working 7.6 cd and was able to get that installed. Didn't try much else in System 7. Went back to...

I put them on Thingiverse. The mSATA to IDE version and the CF to IDE version. Both side holes and bottom holes should be far enough away from the converters for standard drive screws.

Day 12 Spent most of the time working on the 3400c 240MHz. 3D printed a drive tray for the CF to IDE adapters. I used a 16GB CF card partitioned for OS7, OS8, OS9, and shared (osX). os8 and os9 work fine. Still can't find the right os7 distro that works. I even tried recovering off the...

Day 11 part 2 Got a couple packages in the mail. A lot of 4 iBook 14" for parts and 4 early intel macbooks that are trashed. Got two of the 14" to fire up. A 1.0GHz. thermals And a 1.42GHz model. Not enough parts (top case, palm rest, etc) to make a complete one, so I will experiment with...

Boot from a CD? Do you have any external firewire devices or other machines? Or try a USB stick.

Day 11 So far, finished up my mini amp. Added some colored wires to the amp board and screwed it onto the frame. Then cut the wires to length and soldered to the plugs. Added support straps to the plugs. Like a brother from another mother. And it has a nice little blue LED glowing when...

Is your SCSI chain properly terminated? Have you booted holding down the option key (should get a blue screen boot picker)? Select the internal SSD, boot up then verify the SCSI drive is good by checking it from the SSD operating system. If you go into startup disk, does the SCSI show as a...

Day 10 I received some CF-IDE adapters in the mail today, so prepping some CF cards for the two 3400c machines I have. Using an 800MHz G4 iMac. As a continuation of the Apple Pro Speaker cleanup, I had to dissemble my G4 Cube speaker amplifier as the USB power cable was fraying outside the...

Still on Day 9 The Cube speaker pair had disintegrated foam, and one of the speaker cones were actually corroded inside, and did not move. So I will be sacrificing one of the dirtier coned speakers and swap in the new black diaphragms so they look true to original. Removal of the speakers was...

I was able to just tear off the metal disc on the left. The right side has a metal plate with 6 holes in it to grab hold of the rubber. I cut the front edge off with an Xacto knife. I will be more careful with the next one.

I bought from two different sellers, I was not sure of the exact size as they reference some strange measurements. I landed on the 52mm sizes. Speaker Passive Radiator Diaphragm. They come with a center plate that you can dissolve off with IPA, I think. Speaker Diaphragm 52mm These have the...

Day 9 I went through the remaining iBook 12" 1.2 and 1.33 GHz machines again, soldered up the offending chip on the bottom. No luck. :mad: I will set them aside for later. Testing some speakers with Ozzy. Bubble Bobble! Looks like a lemmings invasion? I have 9 sets of pro speakers, none...

Day 7 Day 6 was a bust, worked late so didn't get a chance to get to anything. I got a few parts in the mail as well as some spare keys for my G4 12" PowerBook 867MHz that I should be reviving in a few days. Downloaded InterwebPPC for an iBook G4 1.2GHz 12". Not a big deal but at least...

For further details on the first five days, see my original post on PPC2025, Is it happening?. To recap: Day 1 I worked on recovering three dysfunctional iBook G3 500MHz 12" laptops. I was able to get two fully working. Day 2 I tried to build a power supply for a Dr. Bott DVIator, but in...

Day 5 I have four iBook G4 1.2GHz 12" models. One was restored in December 2024, and I have been using it to prep SSDs for my other iBook recoveries. The other three all display the White Screen of Death (LCD is white only ie the backlight is on, but the only graphics shown are on an external...

Hello, I have a few iBook G4 1.2GHz and 1.33GHz that will boot and run fine on an external display. However the laptop screen itself is just white. I have replaced both the LCD (known good) and LVDS cable (known good) with no change in results. I tested every line in the LVDS cable for...

Day 4 I have three iBook G4 1.33MHz parts machines to try to build one good one. Some testing and disassembly... I see that one boots fine, but screen bezel issues, so I will have to swap screens. This one is also missing the power button socket. Since one of the other machines shows no...

Looks the same as the (4) SI3114 cards I have on hand. I bought sockets in case I fudge the programming. Hopefully get to these this month. One from eBay as a random cheap, two cheap from Free Geek, one "Mac" card from eBay that said works with Mac (assumed it was already reprogrammed).

Day 3 I am working an additional shift today, so not a lot of time for projects. Quickest one I have is a RAM upgrade on an iMac G3 Strawberry tray loader. Had dual 128MB in there and bumped it up to dual 256MB. While it was open, might as well swap the battery for a CR32 holder...

Day 2 I picked up a Dr. Bott DVIator cable from FreeGeek in the dollar bin. No PSU. It has been laying around since PPC Challenge 2024. I thought I would give it a go today. I found a couple old DELL 4pin DIN power supplies at 20V. It was a struggle, but I eventually got the 4 pin...