Saturday, December 20, 2003
End of semester/calendar year
One last day at the school before the winter break. Finished up the refurb of 4 more Macs: a 6500, an 8100, a 7250, and a 5400. Spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out why the 5400 would bomb with a fresh system install, but was OK with extensions off. It turned out to be a bad comm slot II ethernet card.
Only 2 Macs left to fix in this bunch. No time to work on the 5500 with the bad color. I did swap a logic board into the 6100. It seemed to be working fine, but then ethernet would not come up. It might be a software issue or the AAUI/10-Base-T adapter, but I suspect the ethernet portion of the logic board is bad.
One last day at the school before the winter break. Finished up the refurb of 4 more Macs: a 6500, an 8100, a 7250, and a 5400. Spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out why the 5400 would bomb with a fresh system install, but was OK with extensions off. It turned out to be a bad comm slot II ethernet card.
Only 2 Macs left to fix in this bunch. No time to work on the 5500 with the bad color. I did swap a logic board into the 6100. It seemed to be working fine, but then ethernet would not come up. It might be a software issue or the AAUI/10-Base-T adapter, but I suspect the ethernet portion of the logic board is bad.
