It feels like it's inevitable that the kind of person that would enjoy this kind of thing would already know about this, but if repairing classic Macs is something that appeals to you and you aren't already subbed to Adrian Black's channel(s), go check out his Repairathon series[1].
I found this last night after my recently re-capped Macintosh 512Ke started flup-flup-flup on boot. I found some old forum posts about re-soldering the flyback transformer but that didn't fix it.
One of the forum posts had a link to The Dead Mac Scrolls and after reading the section on tuning the voltage lower, powered it up and Happy Mac Sound and booted right up.
Approximate cost of repairing it yourself:
15 min.
I downloaded a copy to keep handy, but my 30 year old Macintosh still works and has never needed to be repaired. It has survived 8 or 9 major moves and 3 different climates.
Well, since Vista it doesn't stay "Start" anywhere anymore :-P
I wonder why is it even called the "start menu" nowadays instead of "window menu" or something like that (considering the icon).
(though even that might not always work considering the stylization... my aunt uses some slang that basically translates to "little boxes", which took me a LONG time to understand what she was talking about when i was trying to help with her Win10 laptop through phone :-P)
[+] [-] benjaminpv|4 years ago|reply
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKD65I86XGQ
[+] [-] datalus|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] johnklos|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ecliptik|4 years ago|reply
One of the forum posts had a link to The Dead Mac Scrolls and after reading the section on tuning the voltage lower, powered it up and Happy Mac Sound and booted right up.
Approximate cost of repairing it yourself: 15 min.
[+] [-] eddieh|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] timnetworks|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] badsectoracula|4 years ago|reply
I wonder why is it even called the "start menu" nowadays instead of "window menu" or something like that (considering the icon).
(though even that might not always work considering the stylization... my aunt uses some slang that basically translates to "little boxes", which took me a LONG time to understand what she was talking about when i was trying to help with her Win10 laptop through phone :-P)
[+] [-] atomashpolskiy|4 years ago|reply
1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33
Holy moly, that's a lot