power

  1. idabbleinit

    PowerBench - Small powerful tools in your menu bar!

    Howdy! I’m the creator of PowerBench, a free menu bar app that gathers the small power tools I kept wishing the Mac had, in one place. Everything is unlocked, with no account, no subscription and no tracking. If you’ve used PowerToys on Windows, some of it will feel familiar, along with a few...
  2. O

    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?
  3. 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...
  4. M

    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...