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How did you determine it was bad (swapped sodimms to opposite sides)? Are both sodimms identical (speed, size, etc)? Did you check for damage or bent pins in the socket? Dust in the socket? Your heat gun will likely not get hot enough to reflow the socket.

When was your green tube transplant? Do you have pics?

That should work. If there is no Master/Slave jumper, you may have to play around with the assumption that it could be default master, or possibly Cable Select. You may have to change your optical drive jumpters (assuming you have one) to get this to work on the same chain. Here is a review...

Edutainment is a pretty broad field. Have you looked at ScummVM.org ? It allows you to play some really good games from earlier PPC days on modern machines. My kids loved all the Humongous Entertainment titles.

Isn't your tagline "put a heatsink on it"?

Every Mac I own, I am not the original owner. I assume every single one has had a terrible digital life of abuse. Some take more tinkering than others to get into a reliable state, and some are just not recoverable with my skill set. I do the best I can, FrankenMod what I can, and set the...

Welcome the Hulkintosh! This project has been on the back burner for some time. I keep going back and forth to other projects and finally got to this one. If you have not seen it already, there is a really cool CRT swap of an amber screen a classic, call the Pumpkintosh. I picked up an old...

Just posting my update in MARCHintosh 2026... Hulkintosh lives!

Is there a 3rd wheel that is supposed to put pressure against the ball to the two rollers? Maybe the spring is missing?

One thing we used in the education industry was DeployStudio, reimaging an entire classroom at a time.

I have half a dozen beige boxes, but no working CRT monitors. But I do have some salvaged 12" and 14" iBook G4 LCD panels that I can get driver boards and 3D print frames to create some retro platinum displays for all those boxes.

I don't think a cookie sheet or a heatsink under the base will be helpful without active cooling. Another problem: air gaps. There is a gap at the very bottom, because the plastic touches the desk and not the metal plate. It is only a couple of millimeters, but enough to insulate rather than...

Today I worked on a dual CPU MacPro4,1 and did the firmware upgrade to 5,1. Quite the process now. Started with El Capitan, and followed this guide to get it done (then another update through High Sierra). Had to swap out my HD 5770 original GPU for a Quadro K4200 (I only had a single power...

Cameron's world? OMG, my eyes hurt!!! All those 1990's animated GIFs is crazy! That page must have taken forever to load on a slow connection.. and the sheer power of a CPU/GPU to keep all of them moving at the same time? Oof-da!

Yesterday, I worked on a "dead" MacPro4,1 that was upgraded to 5,1. Could not get a boot chime or video out. Tried different drives, RAM assortments, different video cards. Still nothing. So I pulled the CPU tray (single) and removed the heatsink. I did a little cleaning of dust and since I...

This is not an accurate model, but shows my idea. Just make a 1/2" high ring to fit in between the top and bottom shells. Original: Lifted: The ring: Of course you have to add some holes in the back for exhaust, depending on what fans you will utilize. The four main screws to attach the...

I don't know how much something like a base would help with air draw from the bottom like this UFO HUB. I would think that you could 3D print a nice ring the same size and give the top and bottom a nice 1/4 or 1/2 inch gap to install a taller heatsink on the motherboard and a couple fans for...

That looks to me like a threaded on nut, that probably requires a special spanner tool. You can use a needle nose pliers opened up to fit the notches, or maybe a lock ring type pliers. Or use a single flathead and a tool to tap/strike the flat-head to unscrew it. But since its a hard drive, I...

For some unknown reason Free Geek was closed today. I stopped by the University of MN ReUse warehouse to see what treasures I could find. I picked up a couple Mac USB keyboards for parts, and three laptops for parts: iBook 12" utterly destroyed, but the lid was intact and I think the screen...

If you can't repair the stock PSU, you may be able to fit any other PSU inside the cage, so you retain the original look. Just following up on the 150W 24V PSU I converted. I disassembled the end connection (It is a nightmare). With all the wires so tightly shrink wrapped in there, I did not...