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This is cool. I like seeing these success stories, especially with a new board! Thanks for posting it.

I remember that it ran horribly too, but it may have been unresolved misconfiguration, as I remember there was a process that would start pushing the CPU utilization way high and mine would eventually overheat/hang/crash. Having just booted mine again and finding it on 10.5.8 surprised me, as I...

Inspired by your progress, I pulled down my ATV and plugged it in. It looks like I left the replacement HDD in there from years ago as it booted right into OSX. Mine is running 10.5.8, an iDeneb image. I must have installed this over Tiger before I put the project away. It still had the flashing...

I had Tiger runing just fine on the internal drive. I had mine functioning as an IOS print server for a while before I setup a Pi to do the same thing. However, I have new interest in getting this running again. I think I still have a drive already setup—just need to swap it back into the case.

Ha ha I just did the same thing!

@max1zzz Much appreciated! It makes a lot more sense for this to move to a marketplace forum—especially since I put WTB in the title. Sorry about that. Still, a little troubleshooting confirmation was worth it here. I am in Portland, OR, but I have not started shopping for EPROMs. I was merely...

Good to know I have not been missing a source of these. I suspect anyone reading this who has a spare Classic ROM from a parts LB or battery-bombed unit probably wants to keep theirs which I totally understand. I have a buddy in town with a EEPROM burner. I need to reach out. Also, the recent...

Ok, I tried uploading the .dmg file. I figured I could add the boot.efi as an additional like other collections I see on the garden site. Anyway, it it stalls at starting upload. . . with no sign of progress, so I am going to let it sit there a while and come back later to see if it finishes or...

I wasn’t sure about policy and ownership etc. on the garden. I could have upped it there I guess. That zip file I made also has the boot.efi. I don’t really remember how it was used at the time, but I remember it was important.

@scj312 this should probably go somewhere better, but for now you can get that old image here: https://mega.nz/file/1IxTBaKb#ULBYM7QASeFBklMPCqJDQk9p24oL4cKAPvE3Mog-WXo

I am restoring a Mac Classic. Recapped the logic board, fixed a trace or two. Washed everything thoroughly, so no more residue. Overall, the board looks pretty clean now. However, a boot test results in clean, unwavering black and white checkerboard. 5v and 12v power tests fine, CRT is nice and...

@scj312 For what it’s worth, I have the ATVOSX.dmg file that was “lost to time”. I was following along with my ATV 1st gen back when this was under development, running AwkwardTV jailbreaks and such. . . This was a lot of fun! If that original tiger disk image alongside the boot.efi file that...

Thanks for confirming. It definitely opens more options when considering different offers.

In my case, I had already removed the ASC, cleaned it up, put it back (a little crooked) and then I started having SCSI issues. I had not recapped the AB or PSU yet, so as I was moving from issue to issue it felt like problems were evolving so while I might fix one thing, something else would...

I totally get the “lost cause” feeling. I actually put my SE30 on the shelf for 9 months in frustration before I found the broken data line, which was actually easier in the long run than how I was feeling about it at the time. Progress was slow to uncover multiple overlapping issues, but I had...

I had distorted sound and bus errors on my SE/30. It is cleared up after the following: Removed, cleaned, resoldered ASC Found broken trace for D31 between SCSI chip and CPU. Bodged and that fixed sound distortion Recapped analog board and PSU which cleared up bus error on shutdown. There are...

Follow up question: Parity vs. Non-parity. . . I am seeing Parity, 9-chip SIMMs that are cheaper than those only populated with 8. Can I use these in compact macs? Or do they have to be non-parity? And what’s with the warning I have seen written about avoiding composite RAM?

Wow. Ok. Mind blown. I should not be surprised by this at all, but I am. However, this makes a lot of sense given how simple these little boards actually are. I am tempted to try this just for the sake of being able to, and with only two chips per 1MB stick, the soldering from new chips would...

The retro-computing hobby, especially as it applies to compact Macs is as much about troubleshooting and repair as it is about using these systems. For many of us, the experience or journey to a successful restoration is the reward. With that in mind, an important troubleshooting step (and part...