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This probably is likely caused by Kodak (or rather, the Chinese company they licensed their name to) using different LCD screen parts and panels in these systems. As some users experienced this before, but I was hopeful that their recent firmware update worked as a solution for this. Originally...

The pre-built firmware files (with updated resolution) are displayed once you enter your serial number into the new tool. I've built and tested these and they've worked great on my three models. With the official Kodak firmware downloaded, that's your safety belt. If after flashing your...

Yes, I think what you're seeing are the compression artifacts from the low bit rate, plus the sharpening filter being set to a high level. Even without a firmware modification, you should see a bit of improvement with the Sharpness filter set to "-1.5". However, the modified firmware with the...

This is outside the scope of my project. I'm focusing on the Color Classic and TV/550/575 models as that's what I need to test without an analog board and CRT. I'd suggest starting a new thread about those systems, as the pinout and technical details differ. The other day I streamed fixing a...

Awesome! Beautiful work as usual. ❤️ Maybe your brain can figure out how to get sound out of the headphone jack without the analog board or whatnot. 😅

Thanks Colin! Yes that’s something I’ll explore. Adding ground to the video signals (I just used a shared ground for all three colors and it seemed okay) produced a much better image. Now I’d love to figure out sound! 🔊 I’ll start with the Color Classic or 575 as those schematics are known...

Hello everyone, Last year I purchased half of a Performa 550 chassis that was missing the analog board and CRT. My goal was to use the included wiring harness to help me troubleshoot compatible 68k LC/Performa systems, the Color Classic, and Macintosh TV. Sadly, I have a few of these boards...

This is an excellent card, I tested it in my Power Mac 4400 and it worked great under System 7.5.3, 7.6.1 and 8.1 Overall, the card is very zippy. I copied a 150MB file over an Ethernet AppleTalk network (from a Mac mini G4) in just a hair under 3 minutes. File downloads using a web browser...

Hi David, Glad that worked - be sure to try both types of firmware. “A” or “B”, either from Kodak or the ones posted here. The screen acting weird is a known issue when flashing the wrong firmware, as these units have different revisions of internal hardware, like screens. On the modified...

This happened to me when the SD card was in ExFAT format. The SD card must be in FAT/FAT32 to perform a firmware update. It may also occur if the SD card is too large, although I’ve had no issues with 64GB cards. I’d be suggest using the official SD card association formatting tool and trying...

I believe we spoke on Reddit. The BlueSCSI alone wouldn't cause the symptom you are describing. Sadly the hard drives on those systems are already nearly 30 years old. They weren't the highest quality drives, so it wouldn't be a surprise at all if the drive stopped working. Especially after...

Hello everyone, First - thank you all for joining TinkerDifferent and posting your results. This project has taken on a life of it's own and it's exciting to see people getting great results from digitizing their 8mm films. 🎉 I wanted to share a new tool I made that'll hopefully make it WAY...

I always assumed this was some weird sound coming out of the speaker because of sad caps or something. My PB 3400 does the same thing, but I never bothered to try taking out the hard drive. Now I'll have to do this! :)

Sadly no, due to the horrible condition of the bottom of the board, I simply assume there is some trace not connecting somewhere.

Ugh yeah, another FTP site that's either dead or is a shell of it's former self. :( Good luck with the search!

I'm very thankful that Kodak has supplied (via their website and email) a firmware update that is seemingly letting users fix the problems that were earlier experienced with screen colors and issues. It is annoying that there is seemingly a "silent", non-numbered 3rd hardware revision of these...

Wow, thanks for the link of the updated firmware they sent you! This is very exciting, I'm glad Kodak is providing updated support for these products. I'm attaching the version you got from Kodak support to this post just-in-case. :) I'll try to flash my v1.0 and v2.0 products to see if this...

In my tests the on-device playback (using the Movie Player function) does NOT play correctly with all firmware mods because the device does not expect higher bit rate / resolution video files. Thankfully if you have a US-based model you can flash it back to the original firmware. I forget what...

With reports of more recent firmware versions on international units, I wrote up a guide of how to dump the firmware on your Kodak film scanner. If you don't mind taking your unit apart and are VERY capable with a soldering iron (and very tiny wires), this may be something you'd like to do. See...

At this time the only way to reverse this would be to 1) figure out what setting changes the LCD settings on non-US models or 2) get someone to modify their non-US model and dump the firmware. This is why I placed warnings all over this guide to try and prevent such issues. Sadly, Kodak will...