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@jcs builds new ones, not sure if he ships to Australia or not though. It's not too difficult to build one though, if you have a spot welder.

Will go try that when I get the chance, can't hurt. Vertical board looks nasty, I'll bet there's problems there, but probably wouldn't cause the symptoms I'm having. Soft power did only work sometimes when the PSU was working though, so I'll bet there are still issues there! I wish I knew how...

I feel your pain... Back in...2019? I took a few parts out of it (RAM and fans IIRC) to clean off some dust, and it never booted again. It is also a Dual 1.8GHz model. I ended up replacing the motherboard entirely which is to this day the WORST must un-fun repair I've ever done. Helped in a huge...

No ticking I don't think. It does make a high pitched whine when I get it to stay running though. The IIsi only stays on if I disconnect the hard drive, it seems to be an issue that it can't handle load. And then with it disconnected is when I get the whine, it's clearly unhappy even then. I...

Hello all! I've just pushed an update to my website, MacDat, which among other things includes a large collection of nearly 1GB of Apple Service Source repair manuals. These were mostly pretty easy to find. The majority were up on applerepairmanuals, but there are a few missing that I had to go...

That hasn't been my experience at all on 68kMLA, not even close. Kai's made it clear that he'd prefer we keep more on topic so I won't write at length here, but if you'd like to spin up another thread you can. I have some thoughts on the whole situation surrounding the animosity between some of...

Where was this? The language used in the announcement was “If you have posts or information within this section that you wish to retain, please backup or migrate this data to another section of the forum prior to the removal date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused”. That says they’re...

Worth noting that when I saw the notice I went and manually saved every page in the section to the wayback machine, so no content has been lost if you look there thankfully. Not everything was saved prior to me doing that though.

It’s dead.

Weird. Looks like there was a data loss incident back then that I didn't previously know about. There's a big several month gap in 2014. Seems any information on what happened is gone. It also appears that this data loss didn't happen right at where the gap ended, but sometime after, as posts...

I feel overall that for TD to not "run out of steam" so to speak, it has to offer more than just a forum. Because at the end of the day, leadership and ideology differences aside, it's just another retro tech forum in a space that already has several (VCFed, Vogons, 68kMLA, and so on). I can see...

So glad that I was able to help! I hope you can get it all sorted out :)

Posting via InterWebPPC now. Glitching is gone, couldn't insert the image properly in Dark Web. It looks like it DID insert it, but it wasn't rendering. The browser seems neat but I can't see myself switching to it since it's a lot less usable compared to InterWeb, which is still rendering this...

Got it running now on my PowerBook G4. The pages that it does load the mobile versions of do seem to run faster (google). m.youtube.com doesn't work though, and I'm noticing some glitchy-ness and rendering issues here on TinkerDifferent that I don't think InterWeb had. Mainly, it seems whenever...

Hadn't heard of "Dark Web" before, yet another great wicknix project it seems! Will have to try it out tonight.

I know you checked the manual but have you seen this? https://www.applerepairmanuals.com/the_manuals_are_in_here/iBook_ibkfw_Service_Manual/ I'm currently working on indexing and uploading all the Service Source manuals to my website and found this while looking for iBook ones. Apparently...

Nothing visually off on either.

I tried to rebuild two PowerBook 500 Series batteries. What could go wrong? Well, I didn't light anything on fire which is a good start, but I don't have working batteries either. I used pre-built 8-cell AA NiMH packs that @jmacz on 68kmla already used successfully on his own rebuilds. Both...

Nice system, those iBook G4s are rock-solid machines that can run forever. An SSD upgrade would get you more space and faster performance, but taking apart one of these is not for the faint of heart unfortunately. They're a royal pain. Go ahead and check out InterWebPPC for a relatively up to...

Looks great :)