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    Molex to Sata lose all your data

    What do you guys do when installing SATA ssds in powermacs? I don’t want to risk melting my Mac with a crappy Molex-Sata power adapter cable. what is best practice here for a blue and white and a quicksilver?
  2. estravolta

    Restoring SE/30 - Melted/damaged CRT power and CRT residue

    Hi all! I am working on restoring my first classic Mac, an SE/30. I've started to dive in and have ordered capacitors and such, cleaned it, taken out the PRAM battery, et cetera. I powered it up after giving it a good cleaning and got a relatively dim vertical line. Page 162 of Dead Mac Scrolls...
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    IIfx ADB power problem

    Hi, folks! I'm having a problem with a IIfx. It's unable to start from ADB power. I recapped it and replaced the PRAM and startup circuit batteries. I've tried: • Both ADB ports. No power, but typing on the keyboard works fine. • Different keyboards. Those same keyboards work fine to power-on...