Re: [1st] 6100 acting flakey
Its driving me nuts, because I rather liked the idea of having an (old) PC and Mac in one. Any ideas? You can probably pick up a replacement 6100 for peanuts. I once got 3 in a lot of 9 Macs for less than $40, and that was over two years ago. They're probably cheaper now. I've seen them sell on eBay for $1. M -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html 1st PowerMacs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:1st-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive:http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: [1st] 6100 acting flakey
Matt Emson wrote: You can probably pick up a replacement 6100 for peanuts. I once got 3 in a lot of 9 Macs for less than $40, and that was over two years ago. They're probably cheaper now. I've seen them sell on eBay for $1. Fair enough. It'll make a good parts source then. -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html 1st PowerMacs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:1st-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive:http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: [1st] 6100 acting flakey
Richard Halkyard wrote: Matt Emson wrote: You can probably pick up a replacement 6100 for peanuts. I once got 3 in a lot of 9 Macs for less than $40, and that was over two years ago. They're probably cheaper now. I've seen them sell on eBay for $1. Fair enough. It'll make a good parts source then. My old 6100 started crashing real hard... would get these four dots up in the top corner and no reset other than power it down, power it up or use reset in the back... Anyway, this was when I was still in Junior high... so I took it to school to get help from the network admin there but when I was fighting with the door whille holding the computer I lost hold it slipped... I tried to grab it but still ended up dropping it about a foot... Anyway when I brought it to the lab upstairs I couldn't get the damn thing to glitch out...Gad, it made me look like an ass. So I went home and it started doing it again a few months later... read on lowendmac about heat issues and remembere reading stories about people fixing Apple III's by dropping them to reseat chips that came loose due to the heat problems in it causing the board to flex enough to have the chips kinda wedged out of place so with that I got an idea... I popped it open and removed reseated every single thing that was socketed in it... SCSI cables, RAM, ROM, Cashe, Power... just every thing. presto chango problems went away. anyway, it comes back once in a while... Was bloody annoying back when I didn't know what the hell was going on... And this symptom is not documented anywhere. -Matthew S. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html 1st PowerMacs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:1st-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive:http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: [1st] 6100 acting flakey
Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: Richard Halkyard wrote: Matt Emson wrote: You can probably pick up a replacement 6100 for peanuts. I once got 3 in a lot of 9 Macs for less than $40, and that was over two years ago. They're probably cheaper now. I've seen them sell on eBay for $1. Fair enough. It'll make a good parts source then. My old 6100 started crashing real hard... would get these four dots up in the top corner and no reset other than power it down, power it up or use reset in the back... Anyway, this was when I was still in Junior high... so I took it to school to get help from the network admin there but when I was fighting with the door whille holding the computer I lost hold it slipped... I tried to grab it but still ended up dropping it about a foot... Anyway when I brought it to the lab upstairs I couldn't get the damn thing to glitch out...Gad, it made me look like an ass. So I went home and it started doing it again a few months later... read on lowendmac about heat issues and remembere reading stories about people fixing Apple III's by dropping them to reseat chips that came loose due to the heat problems in it causing the board to flex enough to have the chips kinda wedged out of place so with that I got an idea... I popped it open and removed reseated every single thing that was socketed in it... SCSI cables, RAM, ROM, Cashe, Power... just every thing. presto chango problems went away. anyway, it comes back once in a while... Was bloody annoying back when I didn't know what the hell was going on... And this symptom is not documented anywhere. -Matthew S. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Obviously though, I don't read far enough. If that doesn't fix it, you're probably better off no screwing aroudn with it... but I woudln't bother getting another 6100... There are nicer computers out there... just try to find one that isn't know to have so many problems that has a PDS slot that will work with the DOS card. -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html 1st PowerMacs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:1st-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive:http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: [1st] 6100 acting flakey
Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: My old 6100 started crashing real hard... would get these four dots up in the top corner and no reset other than power it down, power it up or use reset in the back... Anyway, this was when I was still in Junior high... so I took it to school to get help from the network admin there but when I was fighting with the door whille holding the computer I lost hold it slipped... I tried to grab it but still ended up dropping it about a foot... Anyway when I brought it to the lab upstairs I couldn't get the damn thing to glitch out...Gad, it made me look like an ass. So I went home and it started doing it again a few months later... read on lowendmac about heat issues and remembere reading stories about people fixing Apple III's by dropping them to reseat chips that came loose due to the heat problems in it causing the board to flex enough to have the chips kinda wedged out of place so with that I got an idea... I popped it open and removed reseated every single thing that was socketed in it... SCSI cables, RAM, ROM, Cashe, Power... just every thing. presto chango problems went away. anyway, it comes back once in a while... Was bloody annoying back when I didn't know what the hell was going on... And this symptom is not documented anywhere. -Matthew S. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Obviously though, I don't read far enough. If that doesn't fix it, you're probably better off no screwing aroudn with it... but I woudln't bother getting another 6100... There are nicer computers out there... just try to find one that isn't know to have so many problems that has a PDS slot that will work with the DOS card. Oy I never get it all in one message before I think of something else :-/ It's probably got cracked solder joints in it since resocketing stuff didn't do it... intermitent hardware problem from the heat problems... I never had any extra cards in my 6100 I imagine the addition of a 486 card or whatever the DOS card is probably makes it even hotter. It's really kind of sad the 6100 had to get such a poor design as far as cooling is concerned. I swear, I'm not going to post anymore on this issue unless requested. Really. -Matt -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html 1st PowerMacs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:1st-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive:http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
