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And yet, it still managed to do that to your unit, even though the battery is located on the whole other side of the computer on such long wires. Truly nasty stuff. One thing I can safely say at this point is that just about every single laptop manufacturer used these at some point. Every one...

I don't believe the 9600 is one of the ones that needs a working PRAM battery to function. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's the running list... www.macdat.net/important_issues/batteries_laptops_cmos.html

I believe that edge connector was for factory testing and was never used for anything else, thus why it's not on the reloaded board.

I’m only aware of one such individual who has been “banned from there several times” and I can say with confidence that OP is not the same person.

I've got one with a busted off hinge too! Though mine also has liquid damage on the screen, still turned on when I tested it though. Could be useful :)

I track everything on my website, all done manually. No fancy databases or automated entry. Probably inefficient, but 100% under my control and fun to manage. Each item has a short summary on the main page, then a dedicated pages with specs, operational status, and images. It's still WIP right...

@jcs builds new ones, not sure if he ships to Australia or not though. It's not too difficult to build one though, if you have a spot welder.

Will go try that when I get the chance, can't hurt. Vertical board looks nasty, I'll bet there's problems there, but probably wouldn't cause the symptoms I'm having. Soft power did only work sometimes when the PSU was working though, so I'll bet there are still issues there! I wish I knew how...

I feel your pain... Back in...2019? I took a few parts out of it (RAM and fans IIRC) to clean off some dust, and it never booted again. It is also a Dual 1.8GHz model. I ended up replacing the motherboard entirely which is to this day the WORST must un-fun repair I've ever done. Helped in a huge...

No ticking I don't think. It does make a high pitched whine when I get it to stay running though. The IIsi only stays on if I disconnect the hard drive, it seems to be an issue that it can't handle load. And then with it disconnected is when I get the whine, it's clearly unhappy even then. I...

Hello all! I've just pushed an update to my website, MacDat, which among other things includes a large collection of nearly 1GB of Apple Service Source repair manuals. These were mostly pretty easy to find. The majority were up on applerepairmanuals, but there are a few missing that I had to go...

That hasn't been my experience at all on 68kMLA, not even close. Kai's made it clear that he'd prefer we keep more on topic so I won't write at length here, but if you'd like to spin up another thread you can. I have some thoughts on the whole situation surrounding the animosity between some of...

Where was this? The language used in the announcement was “If you have posts or information within this section that you wish to retain, please backup or migrate this data to another section of the forum prior to the removal date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused”. That says they’re...

Worth noting that when I saw the notice I went and manually saved every page in the section to the wayback machine, so no content has been lost if you look there thankfully. Not everything was saved prior to me doing that though.

It’s dead.

Weird. Looks like there was a data loss incident back then that I didn't previously know about. There's a big several month gap in 2014. Seems any information on what happened is gone. It also appears that this data loss didn't happen right at where the gap ended, but sometime after, as posts...

I feel overall that for TD to not "run out of steam" so to speak, it has to offer more than just a forum. Because at the end of the day, leadership and ideology differences aside, it's just another retro tech forum in a space that already has several (VCFed, Vogons, 68kMLA, and so on). I can see...

So glad that I was able to help! I hope you can get it all sorted out :)

Posting via InterWebPPC now. Glitching is gone, couldn't insert the image properly in Dark Web. It looks like it DID insert it, but it wasn't rendering. The browser seems neat but I can't see myself switching to it since it's a lot less usable compared to InterWeb, which is still rendering this...