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  • Fizzbinn
    Fizzbinn replied to the thread Power Macintosh 475.
    OMG I get it now! Thank you! ...the black retainer thing is a 68040 socket that is just mechanically connected to the silver pins that...
  • N
    nottomhanks replied to the thread Power Macintosh 475.
    Ok, so you can take a very thin blade flathead screwdriver, and you can gently slide it between the card and the black retainer. Then...
  • Certificate of Excellence
    I've found myself mostly in Leopard on my a1047 so I decided to push off the Tiger partition to an external FW drive so I did that and...
  • David Cook
    Attached is Apple's Color Classic schematic. See page 12 for the connector pinouts. We assume the LC 520 pinouts are the same, even if...
  • Fizzbinn
    Fizzbinn replied to the thread Power Macintosh 475.
    But how? I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious but when I look at the card I don't see what replacing all the bottom pins...
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  • David Cook
    We are making progress. We have seen a number of things that are working. The fact that audio worked and the CRT worked briefly means...
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  • N
    nottomhanks replied to the thread Power Macintosh 475.
    That entire set of pins passes through the 601 card, so as long as the pins are bent/broken on the bottom (where it plugs into the logic...
  • Fizzbinn
    Fizzbinn replied to the thread Power Macintosh 475.
    I still have mine awaiting a fix attempt! Can you expand further on your fix using a 68040 socket?