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Hey all, just wanted to share my experience reviving my old MSI MS-5169 Super Socket 7 Motherboard. Initially, this had a ton of bad capacitors on it. All were replaced with modern equivalents, but after replacement, there was still no post. Checking the common mosfet failures on these boards...

@Stephen suggested I long-form this here after my recent repairs. I'm attaching the MX-500 Service Document to this post in case it goes missing, but it's invaluable for troubleshooting this thing! I bought a "for parts" metcal mx-500 on ebay, and sure enough, it mostly didn't work. On initial...

looking for some ideas on an LC2 I'm working on... system will not boot with original roms - it does chime howerver and just hangs at a flat grey screen (not alternating pixes with the mouse). these roms work fine in my lc2 board. with a known good 4th (HH) rom chip installed (341-0746) this...

Hello All! I'm looking for some help and hoping someone has a Packard Bell case similar to the one below, as it was used in multiple models over the years. Mine is missing the power "rod" that goes from the front of the computer, behind the HDD try to the internal power switch in the power...

Hey all, got a working Performa 475 with a pretty rough case, but the machines runs great. Unfortunately, the battery had started just barely corroding and destroyed the trace to resistor R50 on the back of the logic board. In the process of cleaning up the area, the resistor jumped out of my...

Hey all, I've just published an STL for the Beige G3 power switch clip! This is my first 3D design of my own as I'm pretty new to 3d printing, but thought I would share it with everyone in case there's anyone else in need!! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5436790/files

Hey all, a while back, while doing some cleaning, I managed to damage one of my 3.5" Superdrives. It's taken me some time to narrow down the issue. I had just cleaned it and was testing disks, so I had it connected, just setting loosely in the chassis, I lifted the front to insert a disk, and I...

I have an SLA printer in the hopper, and I'm looking forward to starting to print some new parts for the many broken on my beige G3 desktop. I'm wondering if anyone has found good matches for color in a resin yet?!