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I just learned something new. Even though @Drake and Uniserver both mention the need to remove the 3 resistors R67/75/79, the Japanese book Doping Mac (published in Japan in 1997) says that in addition to those 3 resistors, R80 also needs to be removed... I only have an LC520 motherboard...

I’m afraid I’m now back to being confused. I think you’re saying I’m incorrect about the need for choosing one of two analog board types which drive your LCD? So… There’s in fact only one analog board type that you have made and sell? Saying it another way, how does someone place an order...

This is why I don’t get it… We all don’t think exactly alike. :-)

I still don't get it, but I am now strangely compelled to watch I Love Lucy episodes on YouTube.

I must say, that's impressive work!

@Mac84 , you're a star! 🌟 Many years ago, one of my SE/30 boards showed the exact pattern shown below, and at the time I posted in another forum to ask if anyone had seen that instead of the regular horizontal stripes, but no one replied back to say they did. Thanks to your Repair Guide, I see...

I was born in 1971 but never grew up with Commodore. Still, I've always been rather enamored by them. Many school friends I had back in the early 80's had them. And while my first home computer was the 128K in 1984, I still was extremely excited to see the factory tour video below I...

@frontein1 Your work is so incredibly awesome! 👏

Great ot hear! So I guess it is then a decision that boils down to this: Do you want more volume, or do you want stereo? Because it's unlikely someone would hack their plastic case to fit two of those LC575 speakers into the front/bottom area. And if you therefore want stereo, you'd need to...

If the rod is truly used ONLY for structural support reasons, then it shouldn't affect anything electrically if left broken, I wouldn't think. The flyback I had with a broken rod was mounted to the board very solidly prior to my removal of it. Meaning, people with broken flyback rods shouldn't...

So that's the gotcha. You must choose one of two Analog Board types for the LCD kit. I recently converted my 68.4V standard VGA mod to the 84V 13" Hi-rez Mod. The 68.4V Mod was great for 640x480 at 32,768 colors, but only with my LC575 Mystic Motherboard. Now with the 84V mod though, I can...

@ESM-NL I do apologize, but I'm still rather confused, perhaps because I've not read all the posts pertaining to this topic (which are mostly on the 68kMLA.) Are you saying that with the Stock CC Motherboard in combination with the LCD kit, you get only 16 colors at 640x480 (which is the only...

@Marconelly Before cutting anything, I strongly suggest you reach out to that YouTuber (video in your opening post) to tell him your experience and ask him how he was able to reassemble it without using a dremel. Because if he did use a dremel, that wasn't in his video, so he might want to...

Not that the LCD kit displays only 16 colors, but that your custom-built Analog Board, when driving the stock CC’s CRT (not the LCD) can only produce 16 colors due to its limited VRAM?

Thanks, @ESM-NL ! The LCD looks good. It does seem that it’s not displaying its native resolution though. Can you confirm?

Now that Flickr has gone back to giving us faithful users another punch in the nose with their 1024px photo resolution limitation, I thought it best to present some hi-rez versions of my original SE/30 pics here, from back in 2006. That was the era before SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI — when everyone...

Absolutely! If you want to run OS X, more specifically Tiger, on a PPC Mac, you really do need something 1GHz or faster to make it "fun usable." The G4 Cube had a stock CPU speed of 450MHz, which was adequate for OS 9, but not for OS X. I later added 1.2GHz and faster CPU cards in my Cubes...

I have that Noctua fan in my machine and never found it to cause any issues with the Standard VGA mod. I later switched to the 84V mod, and while I do notice very faint and hard to see screen instability, that happens even with the read case removed, which means no fan is connected at all...

Okay, friends. You can now install a BRIGHTNESS KNOB onto your LCD Color Kit....

Thanks for sharing! I have a BabyFace PSU for the SE and SE/30 which uses those Meanwell power modules, and what I found was the modules' 5-volt rail quite nearly at 5.0v at the output of the module, but once it reached the motherboard, due to resistivity losses in the wiring, the voltage was...