I believe there are a couple of surface mount electrolytic caps under the screen bezel that often go bad on these; you should find them if you remove the screen panel from the frame; maybe this will help on that second unit.
Thanks, I didn’t actually see any electrolytic caps on the screen PCB of the 170. The 160 has loads which is a real hassle…hope to have a video out on that as well.
BTW this is not well known but you can actually boot the 140 and 170 with System 6.8.0L. They must absolutely fly. I sold mine before I knew this and could try it out.
Please, please could you either completely stop using background music or have it on at low volume constantly? It's so unnerving start-stop music for seconds!
3:37 iMac G4 spotted!
Great content!!
Thanks! :)
Great video. It's so rare to see one of these without the screen tunnelling, unfortunately.
Thanks! Yes, it does seem to be rare - hope there will be a modern replacement available at some point.
I believe there are a couple of surface mount electrolytic caps under the screen bezel that often go bad on these; you should find them if you remove the screen panel from the frame; maybe this will help on that second unit.
Thanks, I didn’t actually see any electrolytic caps on the screen PCB of the 170. The 160 has loads which is a real hassle…hope to have a video out on that as well.
With a fully working 170 at hand repairing the faulty parts should be straight forward.
Keep up
Thanks, will do! 👍
BTW this is not well known but you can actually boot the 140 and 170 with System 6.8.0L. They must absolutely fly. I sold mine before I knew this and could try it out.
Ok, thanks I'll try it some time!
@@retrotechguy lots of typos in my comment sorry. I meant system 6.
No worries - yeah, that really must fly!
Please, please could you either completely stop using background music or have it on at low volume constantly? It's so unnerving start-stop music for seconds!
Well, thanks for the feedback - do check out the later videos and see if you like it better.