- All right, let's try this, oh my gosh.
Oh shit!
(laughs) This is not supposed to happen.
It'll be fine.
Everything will be fine.
Oh, we're doomed.
(beeping)
(upbeat music)
Hey guys, how are you all doing?
Really, that's just great.
You know, I'm not actually doing so great today.
For one, I'm freezing my baguettes off in the layer.
It's really cold, hence the sweatshirt.
And two, one of my favorite computers
is not turning on anymore.
So what's happening?
Well, I press the Power button, nothing works.
However, sometimes it does turn on
after it's plugged in for an extended period of time,
but the screen is having some flickering issues,
I'm not sure what the technical term is but I think it's
like degaussing itself,
like every time something moves on the screen,
it like flickers and like turns off and then on.
It goes like ti-ting, ti-ting, ti-ting.
It's kind of like I'm turning it off and on very rapidly,
so I don't know who to blame.
I don't know if it's a power supply issue,
I don't know if it's a logic board issue.
However, we have some luck.
So when I was doing the Macintosh TV tech video logs,
I explained that I got a spare Mystic board from the seller.
The Mystic board was essentially
a Macintosh Color Classic logic board that was souped-up.
So this has a faster processor,
more RAM, more video capabilities
and this one even has an Ethernet card on it, very nice.
So I'm thinking, if I put this board in here,
we may be able to save this thing,
and I also have the hard drive
that came from the same donor computer as this board.
For shits and giggles, let's see
if this thing actually turns on.
I've had it plugged in for a while, let's see what happens.
(tapping)
Absolutely nothing.
(tapping)
Yeah, not working so well.
Let's see.
Like I can hear a little sound when I turn the power on,
so power is getting in.
(tapping)
Yeah, it just does not want to turn on,
so again, power supply,
logic board, I don't know,
but let's take a look at the logic board inside this thing,
see if we can find out any damage
or leaks because capacitors can be a bitch.
Thankfully, this Mac was made in the good old days
where you could just literally take a logic board out
of one Mac and put it in another, like Apple didn't care.
You can just freaking
like switch these things around like nobody's business.
Yeah, can't really do that nowadays, can ya?
Okay, here's the board.
Let's just carefully remove this, and out it comes.
So upon examination of the board,
there's a little bit of a corroding going on it looks like,
it's definitely not the worst I've seen,
but there's a couple problem spots,
again, I'm not really an expert on this stuff,
but I can tell when something looks
a little bit problematic.
Next to the battery it looks
like we have some brown crap going on there,
yeah, it's definitely not the worst I've seen.
It looks pretty clean compared
to some other terrifying logic board photos
that I have looked at.
On the backside though,
there definitely, there definitely
looks like there's more problem spots,
there's a lot of white stuff going on here.
I don't work with this stuff too often,
so don't know if that's a very technical term,
but yeah, that doesn't look too good.
Other than that, it's okay,
but yeah, I think it's time
we tried different boards, so what do you say?
Let's try do a motherboard swap or a logic board swap.
Let's try, all right, so
I'm gonna take the Color Classic board out of the way.
I'll just set you right there nice and comfy like,
and we'll insert the rather dusty Mystic board
but I'm not gonna bother cleaning it right now.
I don't want to touch something and have it explode.
Well, with little more jiggling,
I actually got it to fit in.
Don't turn that into a dirty joke please,
okay, let's listen to the snap.
(clicks)
I don't think that was it.
(clicks)
There we go, it's not really a snap,
it's more like a schloonk.
That feels secure.
Okay, let's put the back back on.
That Ethernet card is gonna get
in the way for now, shit, (laughs).
Wonder if I can just take this off, hmm, probably not.
You are gonna be a little bitch.
Aah, mother, well we got that taken apart.
I don't know if that's gonna help at all, but let's see.
Oh this don't, what the shit.
You know what?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not gonna, that's not gonna work.
This board change is not made for that back at all.
All right, well, we'll just let it run
with the back off for now.
By the way, I thought it was fitting
that I'm wearing the old Macintosh face
for the (chuckles) experiment today.
Oh, I've been thinking of opening up
some Krazy Ken slash Computer Clan
merchandise stores recently.
Maybe I'll do that.
Anyway, there's a couple outstanding variables with this.
If it boots up, the system
software may totally be incompatible.
Again, I have the hard disk
that was supplied to me with the Mystic logic board,
so if we have to swap the hard drive,
I guess that'll be next.
Let's get power plugged in,
keyboard, and let's turn on power.
I mean, the power supply unit.
And let's try booting her up.
(fan operating)
Hey!
I hear noise, so the fan is on,
the hard drive is spinning, oh, oh, what the, okay.
This is different, but this
is still better than what we had before (chuckles).
Let's see what's up.
There is not enough memory to load all of your extensions.
Hmm, I've never seen that before.
Okay, what I've also never seen before
is the way the screen looks,
that freaks me out a little bit.
At least it's not flickering like before,
before it would like keep being all wiggly
and stuff but now it's just distorted.
I have no clue why.
All right, I'm gonna shut this down quickly,
and throw in a mouse so I can actually control this thing.
Well, let's open up Photoshop I guess (chuckles).
What?
Some of it is opening graphics
like on one side of the screen and then there's this
like dark void and then and there is more of the screen.
Oh, I really don't know what's happening (chuckles).
This is so weird.
Oh my gosh.
Everything has like a freaking hourglass figure,
like it's wobbly windows and comp piss just got stuck.
It looks like it renders stuff a lot faster
like I'm not kidding like just painting the Apple menu took
a little bit of time with the original board.
This just does it.
It feels speedier and I'm not just saying that,
it really does feels speedier.
That's kind of a half win right there,
a little bit of a stalemate,
so I'm gonna hit the Google machine up,
see if anyone else has had this problem.
Colin Wirth who I collaborated on Vintage Apple Vault,
I think he has a Mystic board or he was
at least working on one at one time.
I know he has a Color Classic.
I could also contact the seller
that sold me the Macintosh TV as well as the Mystic board
and see if he has had a similar issue too,
so I've got a couple people I can ask,
and the Almighty Google machine.
I've been thinking, I heard there was a way
to crank the system resolution
to 640 by 480 with these upgrades,
and I wonder if that's what's happening,
because everything looks a little bit smaller too.
So I think something with the motherboard,
the logic board, is forcing the resolution too high,
which again is technically possible,
I've seen people do it with these upgrades or
at least I've heard rumors but yeah,
it's clearly not working on here,
so I think something is missing
which will actually let me
take advantage of the resolution.
I need a freaking mouse pad, why don't I just get one?
But yeah, I think that's all it is,
I think it's just, like the resolution
is too high and it can't handle it.
Okay, so I did some poking around the Internet
and it turns out the main culprit for the resolution
issue is the VGA hack on the motherboard.
Now, the hack, I don't know why it's not working,
but right now it's causing more problems than it is solving,
so there's a couple options.
One, I can swap resistors on the logic board.
No, I'm not gonna do that (chuckles).
Two, we can use resource edit
or ResEdit to modify the system file
or whatever file we really need to edit
and try to get the screen resolution
of the Color Classic back to normal.
So, I have a CD here, and the reason why I'm doing this
is because I need to get the resource editor program
on the Color Classic or technically on
an external bootable drive for the Color Classic,
so I can overwrite the system file,
and I don't have a super convenient way
to transfer stuff to it (chuckles) other than burning CDs,
and I can't just burn a CD with a modern Mac because,
well, at least with the built-in software,
because I can't make a Mac OS standard disk image.
So that is why I busted up my Leopard PowerBook,
and we'll make a disk image
and have some fun together, hurrah.
Oh boy, this is just really not gonna work, is it?
Make a new disk image, new blank disk image,
so now I can do this,
burn that, okay, so, I feel
like I should probably put something else on the CD,
but I really don't know what else to put on here,
I'm kind of just wasting it,
I'm writing 1.8 megabytes of files,
and yeah, just wasting the other
like 600 or so just feels a little wasteful,
but I have 100 of them, it'll be fine.
Everything will be fine.
Oh, we're doomed.
Okay, so just to keep adding to the plethora of problems,
the CD burned, which is great,
but now the PowerBook went into sleep mode
and for some reason it will not wake up from sleep mode,
so I can't actually check the data on the disk,
so I'm gonna have to hard shut it down and reboot.
Silly power, oh man, even holding down the power
button isn't turning it off, are you serious dude?
Wow, this guy is just being so uncooperative.
What is his deal?
All right, I'm just gonna yank the power.
Sorry anonymous silver stranger.
It was you or me.
Where is the port, there it is.
I'm gonna need to drink some port after this.
Here's disk image, and here is our shit, all right.
PowerBook, you have done your duty.
All right, let's move back to the 68k stuff.
Now, we just need a way to,
oh, crotch shot, that's great,
we just need a way to get
this thing booted up externally
if we're gonna be editing system files.
I believe that would be the safest
and most permission friendly way to do that,
and I need something to transfer the data off the CD.
There is no built-in CD-ROM drive,
so we're gonna use some stuff from some previous episodes.
Item number one, a ClubMac external hard disk drive.
This will run over SCSI.
I believe system seven five is on here,
so it should be bootable,
and on the back, we have CN-50 SCSI connection,
so we can daisychain.
This little guy, an Apple CD 300 external SCSI CD-ROM drive.
Caddy loading, I already
have the terminator installed on the back of this thing,
so I'll just daisychain it now with the CN-50 cable,
with my favorite satisfying clicking sound.
(clicks)
When you snap that in,
definitely don't need to do that now,
there is, but it's fun.
It's nice, it's the little things.
I'm gonna have to set you to the side
because you're just too freaking big.
So one thing I didn't notice earlier,
a viewer actually pointed this out to me
is that the label on the little slot here,
the little flap, changes when you have a caddy inserted.
So right now it says CD caddy
but when a disk actually goes
in there, it says caddy loaded.
I seriously never noticed that,
so the things I learn from you awesome techies, right?
So I also need the CN-50 to DB-25 cable,
CN-50 on the back here,
and then we'll screw in the DB-25 to the Color Classic.
Sorry about all the crotch shots.
Oh, I'm also not used to wearing a sweatshirt,
but I'm freezing my baguettes off.
So, fresh little caddy,
throw a CD in there and we are good
to go from a hardware level.
Now we just need to, oh,
should probably hook a keyboard up
to the Color Classic so we can actually operate stuff.
Okay, let's flip things on and pray that they work.
La voila, now I won't be surprised
if I screwed something up royally so if this doesn't work,
let's not be surprised.
Let's be surprised if it does work.
Okay, let's turn this on first, the CD 300.
And yes, it does say CD caddy,
but once I load it up, and now it says caddy loaded.
Now, this part I don't know if I'm just overthinking it
but sometimes it's tricky.
If I turn this on too soon,
sometimes the computer won't recognize it.
Let's try booting them up around the same time.
I know there is a keyboard shortcut
you are supposed to press.
I always forget what it is, it's like something (chuckles).
All right, let's try this, on my gosh.
See, I'm still going off the assumption
that the VGA hack is what's f-ing this up,
but what's weird is all of this
like extra light coming through,
I don't know if the hack is causing that
or if it's some other electrical problem,
but I hope it's just the hack causing that problem.
System 7, so that's the external disk, that's good.
Start up this Control Panel,
okay it registers both the internal Macintosh HD
and our SCSI System 7, so that's gucci.
Let's set that as our startup disk,
shut down, and power back up,
sounds like the SCSI, external SCSI disk is cranking away.
That's a good sign.
However, what's not a good sign
is now nothing is showing up,
and sounds like no hard drive is doing anything.
You know, it's probably not compatible.
This external drive I bet can't boot
and it's giving us an error message saying it can't boot
but we can't get the picture up so we don't know
that it can't boot unless oh, I just did something.
I just hit Enter and now stuff is happening,
but I can't see any of it, and it sounds like it loaded.
I really don't want to have to hard shut
all this down but let's see.
I'm gonna assume I'm booted into the desktop,
so hypothetically I should be able to press the Power button
and then press Enter to do a regular safe shutdown.
Wow, that was lucky.
(exhales) Yeah, you got to know
how to pilot blind you know?
You never know when your freaking instruments
are just gonna go down, you just gonna fly the plane.
I feel like I'm kind of like that right now except this
is definitely not as deadly of a situation.
It's just a disappointing situation.
We're gonna start back up on the normal hard drive,
the internal one, make sure the startup disk is set back to
that, and then reboot and try,
just try to see what we can do without booting externally.
(hard drive operating)
Oh, I think it's doing something.
I can hear it (chuckles).
Yeah so, yeah, I'm trying to start up normally now.
I still don't have video.
The resolution is what's causing a lot
of the speed bumps here.
It's not so much of a speed bump,
it's more like the edge of a cliff.
That's kind of where we are right now.
What did I do?
I'm just gonna call the screen dead.
I'm pretty sure it's just dead.
What I'm gonna try is I'm gonna put the other board back in
and see if I can get that to boot,
because again, if it sits for a while plugged
in with the power turned on,
sometimes miraculously I can get it to boot.
If it boots and the screen works,
then we can likely safely assume the screen by itself
is not malfunctioning.
Maybe it's something with this particular board.
However, if the computer does turn on with the other board
in it but the screen just does this,
well then I guess we can assume the screen is busted.
I don't know if I did anything to break it
but it was already acting funny as it is.
And I'm not even talking about the resolution thing.
I'm talking about the issue before that where it was just
like flickering like crazy, so yeah, it might be broke.
Oh, that would suck.
All right, well, that's gonna be an overnight thing,
'cause it usually takes hours before it's bootable again
with that other board, so we'll see.
Okay, so it's been about 2 1/2 days since
I last touched this computer.
I've been letting it charge up for
all of those days to see if I can get it to boot,
because again, sometimes that has worked for me in the past,
and actually within that timeframe,
my beige mouse had to go somewhere else
and now I have the Macintosh TV black mouse with me,
so that's kind of cool,
it doesn't match the rest of the computer's beautiful color
but, oh well, it's black mouse and it's awesome.
All right, here we go.
I'm gonna press the Power button, hope something happens.
Three, two, one.
(taps)
What?
Oh shit.
It's turning on.
Okay, so now the question is will the screen turn on?
Because I've been having problems with that.
Oh, there, oh hello, oh, oh, oh!
Oh shit!
(chuckles) This is not supposed to happen.
Oh my gosh.
Hello McFly, oh it's red.
Oh it's bleeding, oh that's, that's, oh,
it's like buzzing and hissing.
I don't think I should really have this turned on.
I'm gonna let it go for a little bit longer.
Oh my gosh, that's not good, holy shit.
Is this thing gonna like explode?
I'm gonna be over here if you need me.
Shit dude, that ain't right.
This is way worse than it was before.
Yeah, I mean, when I said it was
like flickering before, it was not this bad.
This is way worse.
It got worse ever since I attempted the motherboard swap.
You need to turn off.
You need to shut down right now sir.
Oh, oh, okay, all right, well.
(chuckles) Well, it turned on.
That was cool.
The screen turned on too,
but it kind of only, it didn't really finish.
It like half turned on and just kept
like flickering and spazzing out.
Oh, oh man, I think the freaking screen is dead.
Shit!
Well I guess now it's not gonna turn back on.
Oh shit, it did.
Oh, that was lucky.
Yeah, I can hear it buzzing again.
Yeah, this is not a good idea.
I want to give it one more try just to see what happens
but it seems like when there's less movement
on the screen, it flickers less.
Oh shit, that's, oh, it's broke,
oh, dang it, welcome to Macintosh,
yes, I feel so welcome right now.
Oh by the way, don't watch the screen too much if you have
like seizure problems or something,
I should probably put a little disclaimer up right now,
this is driving me crazy.
I want to let it boot up,
I'm just gonna check it one more time
and see when it boots up if it
like stops doing this when there's no movement
on the screen but oh wow.
Oh no, man this really sucks.
Oh yeah, it's f*cked.
This is bad.
All right, you need to turn off.
Oh, wow.
Oh, this poor little computer,
Curse, you just had to strike this guy huh?
You just had to strike him.
He's old, he's been through a lot.
He's older than me.
What is your motive?
Why, why you have to strike him?
Why make his final days so torturous?
(whooshing)
What, what's happening?
What?
Where'd he go?
- [Mac] Ken, can you hear me?
- [Ken] Classy.
- [Classy] I really am sorry about all this,
but it's time that I go.
- [Ken] What?
Now?
But I, I know people can fix you.
You can be fixed, it's fine.
- [Classy] All of that is just a stall.
This really is what's better for me.
- [Ken] No, Classy, I had you since I was just a little kid.
I remember taking you home the first day
and I had to fix your hard drive.
I remember doing that.
You can't go now.
- [Classy] It'll be better this way for both of us.
- [Ken] But what about the good times we had?
- [Classy] Those memories will always be in my heart drive.
I had a wonderful time knowing you.
You're free to use any computer you want,
computers faster than me.
- [Ken] You're right.
I'll use computers that will make you jealous.
(whooshing)
Oh, oh.
Well, I got a hold of the Curse's phone number
and I got in touch with him,
asking what he possibly did to
that poor old computer to fuck it up so bad.
And he told me to go fuck myself.
So not gonna get anywhere with that guy.
If any of you know what could've happened
where the screen got all left off
and maybe there's a way to fix that, just let me know.
Maybe I can find Classy again
and give him a good old spit shine even though he
has ascended into some kind of afterlife
where I'm probably not gonna find him.
Ha-ha, oh.
Oh, well, that would be a good plot for
like a Hollywood film of Krazy Ken, right?
Yeah, let's get that green lit.
So, anyway, today was definitely a loss.
Yeah, did not expect that to happen.
Honestly, when I started documenting this,
I thought this was gonna be a quick motherboard swap,
I honestly didn't think it would work,
but I didn't think it would not work like this (chuckles).
So that's what was really weird,
so it was still fun, had a lot of good memories with
that computer, so I have more stuff coming,
thanks for sticking with me,
catch the Krazy and pass it on.
(contemplative music)
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