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Hey, gang! Been a while, but I've been playing around on my iMac more the last week, and it's been so much fun being back in the OS9 arena. I've noticed with extended use that there's a line of pixels on the display that are coming in very bright - like a blue line running down the left side of...

Okay! So I got a new charger (thanks for the recommendation, @Yoda ! Works great. The screen still comes up dark, so I'm going to go ahead and plan to do a recap of the display, already ordered the parts based on this guide on Mac84.net. A couple things I noticed when taking it apart last night...

I kinda want to start another thread to ask all kinds of questions about the process, and get any suggestions you have for making one that lasts longer

And of course I'm now reading through this decade-old thread about rebuilding and/or scratch building a battery replacement for these PowerBooks: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/macintosh-powerbook-145-160-170-battery-replacement.1417/page-2

Update! The PowerBook arrived today and as advertised it didn't power on. UNTIL I took out the battery! Then I got a chime and I think a full boot. Couldn't tell because the screen is shot - totally black and no adjustment to the contrast or brightness could fix it. And brightness only seemed...

Oh! Still looking for a recommendation on a module or something so I can keep an eye on the CPU temps.

Okay, so I think the problem was something to do with my OSX Tiger partition trying to use my OS9 for Classic mode. Over the weekend while I was working on the mac I had a couple system crashes, and tried rebooting into OSX to try to fix it. The first couple times I tried that the machine...

I don't have another G4, I'd thought about Target Disk mode. I did just find an OS9 'boot kit' on MacRepository that can be installed on a USB drive and booted, so I'm going to try that, it has software to reinstall OS9 and do some disk repair diagnostics too.

Oh! Also wondering if there's an OS9 utility or Control Strip module that lets me monitor the CPU/GPU temperatures.

Last night while I was running the iMac for a while, getting the Airport card and base station working together so I could get it online again, the system just did a hard shut down out of nowhere. I'm assuming it just overheated, but not totally sure. Powered it back up this morning, and...

Ah! This is all great news. Yes, the first thing I'm going to do when it arrives is to open it up and check the board for any obvious messes or burn spots. The exterior looks good from the auction photos, so I've got my fingers crossed. And I'll do my best to be careful, I hear these machines...

Hey gang! I just purchased a PowerBook 160 off eBay described as 'untested, does not power on, parts only'. My hope is that I can figure out what's wrong with it and get it running again, but these old PowerBooks are a complete unknown for me. Never had one, never used one. So I'm wondering what...

And actually watching that specific video, I think I might take a couple of these drives and use them as my first recapping project!

Absolutely! One of my goals is to clean these up and make them as like-new as I can, and JDWs floppy drive videos have been a great guide.

Ah, okay, I was worried about that. It's okay, I did pick up a System 6 floppy not long ago, but it appears the floppy drive isn't reading anything right now. SO that's my next step I guess! Explains why so many of the .dsk images I've found include a System folder on them.

Hey gang, this is going to be a kind of elementary question I'm sure, but I'm working on getting a Mac SE with dual floppy drives up and running, and I'm trying to understand whether I'm going to need a System disk every time I boot it up, or if the system gets installed on the internal startup...

I didn't pick up RealBasic until I had a G4, so it just boggles me that there's a version of it that works with the 68K family. If 2.1.2 requires 7.1 to run, can it export apps for 68000 computers?

Yeah, so what I ended up trying was relaunching Recovery Mode, and using Disk Utility to save an image of the partition and saved that to my hard drive. Then I poked around all through there but still couldn't find it. The interface in Recovery Mode suggests there might be an app somewhere...

The DefaultDesktop I have is the photo of a sand dune that comes up when I'm logging in after a restart. Good to know I can change that! But not what I'm looking for. And sadly the search for 'Linen' didn't turn up anything either. Good suggestion, though!

Hey, gang - I'm trying to locate this asset on my computer, it's part of the Recovery Mode OS, so I know it's gotta be stored somewhere?