Say goodbye to LC II

2003-12-14 Thread Excitable Boy
That bloody ADB port let me down again, and this time I believe it's for good. Unless I find another motherboard, I hardly see any spark of hope for my LC II. Now I've shoved the battery into my glorious Power Mac 9500, which is quite a challenging task for a non-expert like me, but there you

Re: Hardware problems with LC II

2003-12-11 Thread Excitable Boy
Il giorno 11/12/2003 0:10, Mark Benson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Maybe it's just showing all 11 years of it's age. Well, as far as I know, most of the LC II's parts date back to 1991. And we all know that when it comes to high technology, a year is worth a century... By the way, I've had

Re: Hardware problems with LC II

2003-12-10 Thread Excitable Boy
Il giorno 9/12/2003 14:00, Mark Benson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: One common problem on the LCs is there are 2 clips that hold the board against the back of the case (you have to pull these away from the board slightly to slide it out). They are oftem broken off by people ramming plugs

Re: Hardware problems with LC II

2003-12-09 Thread Excitable Boy
Il giorno 6/12/2003 12:51, Mikael Jolkkonen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: The motherboard of an LC II comes out easily. Perhaps you should try taking it out and replacing it again, and see if you can get the ports aligned correctly. Eureka! Thank you Mikael, your advice has been very

Hardware problems with LC II

2003-12-05 Thread Excitable Boy
Hello, this is my first post. I'm from Italy and I own a Macintosh LC II with System 7.1: yes, it's very slow, but it works quite fine. Except for one thing, which is of crucial importance... the ADB port. It would be rather sad if I had to trash my old Mac just because that small port won't