Full credit goes to Zachary S. for his findings, I am just providing the information as I felt it would be valuable to someone. A customer recently sent in a Mac 512k analog board that would start to get power but then die. It would repeatedly tick in fact withContinue Reading
A customer recently shipped us an Amiga 600 that had no mouse movement. This was not a terribly difficult issue to resolve, but we had to check a few things as the board had a small amount of corrosion. Checked if the second joystick port worked, it did not. VerifiedContinue Reading
I was working on a Macintosh Classic II which had an interesting fault. It was the second time I had fixed it on one and thankfully had notes from the first time. Symptoms: When powering on the system you have either no sound or distorted sound. Pressing reset continuously makesContinue Reading
There is not a lot of documentation on the CUDA or EGRET chip in terms of troubleshooting. How does it work? Well, I’ll do my best to document that here. Soft Power One of the core uses of the CUDA chip is soft power for AIO Macs like the 550Continue Reading
A good customer sent us their Amiga 600 which was not booting. They had gone through reviewing various signals, like _RST, checked voltages and so on. They saw that the 555 was not putting out a proper signal, but couldn’t sort it out. That’s where we come in! We startedContinue Reading
I wanted to write about this Macintosh Classic as it stumped me for a bit. We had replaced UH6 which is a LS174 that handles timing for the CAS circuit. When booted, the system just showed a sad Mac with the error code 0000000e. This error means there has beenContinue Reading
Have boards you need worked on? Feel free to reach out to us! We work on more than Amiga as well. We’ve worked on PC motherboards, Xbox 360s and more! We can also do NESRGB installations! Let us know how we can be of service.Continue Reading
March is upon us, which means it is time for Marchintosh! Marchintosh is when we celebrate all things Macintosh. During the month of March we will be offering lower prices on our services. Not only that, we will be documenting as many jobs as possible. Making YouTube videos highlighting specialContinue Reading
We were recently sent a TRS-80 for restoration. Here is a list of work done: Replace all capacitors Replace the old battery Clean up damage from two capacitors Fix any broken solder joints Ultrasonic the boardContinue Reading
We’ve working with a client to get our hands on two boards they’ve had stored away. While stored away, a family of mice made it their home. Our goal is simple, clean the boards up and identify whether they can be fixed. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJd7AlM-PULP61-2NCovIuA We will be doing aContinue Reading