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My first bet would be the DC power board (module with all the caps on it), they do go bad from what I've heard. I've had abnormally good luck with my 5300 units, both at least booted correctly (though had power-unrelated issues). I've got mine mostly recapped now (just gotta get one cap on the...

Old CD-ROM drives can indeed be incredibly picky about properly reading burned disks. In particular, my 12" iBook G3 Snow has immense difficulty booting from burned CDs, which made it an absolute nightmare to get Tiger installed on when I got it (was in 2020 and I didn't have nearly as many...

8.4.1 is as far as you can go on an iPad 3 unfortunately, no further untethered unless you've dumped the SHSH blobs of a previous version in the past. What are SHSH blobs? Basically, Apple is a giant evil corporation. To prevent users from downgrading their devices to whatever iOS version they...

It's even worse than 10.11, no patcher supports GPU acceleration for anything above Mountain Lion (10.8). That's what I've got running on my early 2008 BlackBook.

Photos of the board will help us see if anything is obviously off.

and they said you couldn't overclock a c64...

Gotta find it first, shouldn’t be too difficult, it uses AMI. My first suspect is the power board. My IBM PS/Note had similar behavior where it would power on but not POST which was caused by the bad cap. Maybe the caps on that board are out of spec, will likely replace those to start.

What paths? What would I suspect? Not Posting is an issue that could be caused by anything There is zero corrosion on the board whatsoever. The main battery was not present and did not leak, and the CMOS battery didn’t damage anything either.

Just arrived from eBay, seems pretty uncommon. Worked perfect when I got it, booted up into Windows 3.1 and besides both shift keys seeming to not work, it was running great. Then I opened it up to remove the CMOS battery, which as I suspected was indeed a Varta pack that had begun to leak down...

Strange thing is that it happens on multiple systems. Makes me think it's something with your router config.

The general system freezes when online? Or the browser? Internet on a PPC is going to be slow. Usable if you're patient, but slow. If you're entire system freezes on both the eMac and the iBook then I'd honestly have no idea what's up besides a possible incompatibility with your router. Check...

Ah shoot this deadline just snuck up on me didn’t it. Sorry but I have nothing good to contribute, was really bad at crystal quest and mouse stampede I got over 100k but that’s it.

Well this is officially the find of the year so far. 240MHz PowerBook 3400c, for FREE!!! It was a bit beat up, bad keyboard, wonky hinges, missing a drive module and the HDD Cable (and HDD) but shockingly the PRAM battery hadn’t wrecked the logic board and it works! I have another one in...

I should have at least one mac related video to fit the theme this year. Will be sure to get it out in march!

Main issue I see if that you’d go through the hours of work to do it and then sell at most a dozen of them. You’ve got a small subset of people with a 5300ce, then a smaller subset who’ve had their hinges snap, then the smaller subset of those that have had a torn cable. Not like the eMate where...

Yeah, I figured it would be too complex. Maybe if it was a common model, but the 5300ce probably sold as many units in the US as the 550c did in Japan. They only show up on eBay every couple of months as well.

Considering apple only sold around 3 5300ce PowerBooks, I doubt it would be worth his time ;) Brought it up last year in this thread but I never got a responce: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/looking-for-flex-cables-to-recreate.928/

Also, pretty proud of this. I managed to grab the model number of the Samsung-made panel for the 3400c (also used a sharp) from a brief second in Action Retro's TAM video where he swapped it into his TAM (they use the same LCDs). Had to crank the resolution all the way to 4K and zoom way in, but...

Indeed.

Also, just updated the LCD index page on my site. Now has LCD model numbers for the 150 Casio panel, 190cs/5300cs Sharp panel, 1400c panel, and other info. https://macdat.net/extras/powerbooklcdindex.html If you know any LCD model numbers that I'm missing, let me know.