Search results

On the original PCI PowerMacs the OF dialog is sent to one (both?) of the serial ports. So another Mac with terminal program should enable interaction with OF even if the Macintosh in question cannot produce video output.

Okay, I got nothing. I don't know about any board revisions beyond the speed changes. The HDI-45 connector should be present on all X100 boards. If you find an 8100 board that lacks an HDI-45 connector, then it is almost certainly a Radius 81/110 board. Radius used the exact same board...

On a PowerTower Pro I've seen similar symptoms when a PCI arbiter chip wasn't soldered properly -- or rather the solder had failed for some reason. Resoldering fixed it. The Bandit Arbiter is a little 28 pin PLCC labeled 343S0182. I have not seen this particular issue on the 9500/9600. It...

Is the 'new' board also an 8100/80? There were also 8100/100 and 8100/110s, IIRC. And somewhere in there they changed the NuBus controller, I think. There was some detail about the original NuBus controller having na issue with I can't remember what and the new one being desirable for no...

I may be overlooking something, but it seems to me that your Wi-Fi enabled 68K Macs can access your wired network through their Wi-Fi connection. So if you add an ethernet to LocalTalk bridge, such as the AsanteTalk, to your network, and install the LocalTalk option in the Imagewriter, that...

Hmmmm. I don't know what's going on internally in the 88916 and the 68040, but looking at the circuit in resistor network terms, changing the value of Rp shouldn't change voltage at the 68040 pin, under some conditions. The voltage at the Pclock pin should always be Rp X I where I is the...

I am interested, but you're going to be shipping from UK (I'm in Texas) which would add substantially to the expense, I think. I'd probably be smarter to wait and see if someone does a US based run...

Well, the inductive impedance is in series between the 88916 and the CPU and it should just keep getting larger as frequency increases, but, despite the danger of guessing without data, I just can't believe the inductance in a straight wire is substantial, even if it has a few bends. The...

I'm speaking from 20+ year-old knowledge, but the traces have small capacitances to neighboring traces and ground/power planes. Small because they distances are relatively huge. Even a straight conductor has inherent inductance. Zc = 1/j2(pi)fC; ZL = j2(pi)fL As the frequecy varies, so too...

Have you removed the heat sink and cleaned off the old heat sink compound which has turned into useless chalk by now? I first ran into this on a 7100. Very similar symptoms, except it would usually finish booting, at least the first time and then crash. One time I saw video artifacts that I...

The badcaps forum has (or had, it's been years since I looked) a few threads on repairing the MDD power supply. https://www.badcaps.net/

Dalbani used to have half a dozen BU406 choices, which left me scratching my head wondering which of them would work well. I never made the time to do the test. In the intervening ten or fifteen years, they seem to have done away with their on-line store and moved to Ebay only. Also their...

You're very welcome, JDW. I'm am happy I was able to help. Do you have an oscilloscope? I am wondering what kind of comparison you would see on your test jig between the DW55 and DW80 chips as you increase the input frequency. Oh, but remembering earlier posts, I guess the limiting factor...

I spent a little time reading the datasheet for the 88916 and didn't see anything that should cause that behavior. I was thinking there might be a pin that sets a mode or some such. Admittedly, I did some skimming and didn't read everything in detail. There's some complication there with...

I find the point at which someone starts demanding that I adjust what pronouns I use to be sexual harassment. I have no interest in what specific gender other people are. Forcing that awareness on me for the purposes of serving up "proper" pronouns immediately sexualizes the conversation and...

It's been like a decade, but a long time ago I read up on the Intel Chipset used in the ATV and IIRC, there is one or more SATA ports on the chipset. The pins just aren't brought out on the motherboard. I could be misremembering, but I think htat's what I found.

Sounds like a plan. Let me know if you need the chips, JDW. I'm happy to help if I can. Is there any experience out there on whether the DW55 and DW80 are interchangeable? If they were actually tested and speed binned then it's less likely, but if they got the manufacturing to the point...

I have a stash of the DW55 :) I have some DW80s as well and could spare you a couple, but I've never confirmed that they're good. I can't remember the source at this point. Too many years. Seems like it was a 68KMLA member, but I'm not sure. Not sure about shipping to Japan though...

If the masks are already available, and will work with one of the fabs at TSMC, it might be possible to get the number under 1000. Of course, that's assuming Freescale would bother. There are (or were) deals available at TSMC where you get two to four wafers and they're processed on a...

On the Turbo601 for the 68030 Macs, the difference between the 66MHz version and the 100 (99) MHz versions was the addition of an ICS9178 clock buffer/PLL chip. As far as I can tell, this chip handled converting the 33MHz bus signal to 3X for the PPC601 -- apparently it does not have internal...