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Yowch! That's a burnt PSU. Surprised it works in that state!

Poorly. It’s a lot harsher and has been known to make weaker connections break in a way that isn’t visible to the eye, making troubleshooting very difficult. Avoid it.

I must however amend my previous message to say that laptops can often involve 200% of the issues... it's totally worth it, right...? guys...?

That's why I love laptops so much. 90% of the functionality, 10% of the space.

Good luck fixing this IIci! And a word of advice - if it's your first time soldering, or even if it's your first time soldering surface mount ICs, always remember to practice on a junk board first. The best way to screw up is to dive right in on the board that matters.

That's a cool effect! May just have to do something like that to mine at some point.

Yeah no idea, sorry. @nickpunt is pretty good at tracking weird connectors down. He found two weird laptop power connectors on a 68kMLA thread, not sure how active he is here though. I had a quick look on google but couldn’t find anything.

Post some photos of the laptop if you can!

I believe this is the same model: https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue133/40_Leading_Edge_DLT386.php

This a laptop? Edit: Indeed it is! I'll search around the net for info on it, I'm decent at digging up info on laptops.

Yep, the G4 boards have 'em. At some point I'll recap my sawtooth.

airport cards are dying now? The B7W didn't support them either way. The B&W G3 has all solid capacitors on the logic board, the beige one's don't.

🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ Skimmed the thread and wrote about iMac G3 faults... Blue and white G3s are pretty bullet proof hardware wise - check the PSU for proper output voltage, then can't offer many ideas beyond that.

Most common issues with these are PSU and analog board related. The flyback transformer is a common failure in all revisions as far as I know, and bad caps on both boards are known to happen as well.

I recently bought a couple of WinBook 486 laptops off of eBay. In the process of getting them working, I ended up looking into finding more information about them, but could find only a couple mentions of them on Google, and no real info about what they were. In fact, there was hardly any info...

The EC variant doesn’t have an MMU.

A lot has changed since the last post: 1. I got another Winbook, this time a color model with an SX CPU. 2. I made a section on my website for these, with just about every bit of info you'd need to know about them. Check it out here! https://macdat.net/pc/winbook/486series_home.html

Ok, that's insanely cool. How do you make those? Did notice one mistake though - the LC variants do have MMUs, just no FPU.

Awesome. Mind if I put that info on my website somewhere as well?

Took me a while but I found the video I was looking for: Original Blueberry board, proven to work. The guy in this video added a few bodge wires - I’m assuming this is because he didn’t type in the open firmware commands needed to enable XGA? Did he just hard wire it instead due to not knowing...