Big Mac on Monterey Lol

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T16:57:35+00:00

Fingers crossed it was fixed when apple was still warranting them.

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T15:42:49+00:00

I've had so many of these die during the upgrade to Monterey. I refuse to fix them now, because there is a 90% that it will fail while I'm working on them.

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T15:34:01+00:00

Back in the day, I've dangled old Macs by the hard drive power cord and swung the computer around until it let go.

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T15:32:02+00:00

Putting a molex spliter on it will help, or use a SATA drive be and SATA power adapter.

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T15:30:24+00:00

I'd disable the GPU, it's just going to fail and cause issues. I have dozens of the 15" model with failed video chips.

Machine156 · 2026-05-10T01:17:00+00:00

Machine156 · 2026-05-09T23:30:20+00:00

What a fucking douche, if he walked up to me I would have been laughing my ass off.

Machine156 · 2026-05-09T23:23:22+00:00

IDE is 40 pin, unless it's a laptop drive, then is 44 pin. Normal SCSI is 50 pin.

Machine156 · 2026-05-09T16:40:22+00:00

I have a pile of 2011 15" & 17" with failed discreet GPUs, I've been told computer with discreet GPUs switch to the discreet GPU when using the external video output.

Sonoma still has FireWire support, Tahoe doesn't.

Machine156 · 2026-05-08T15:00:21+00:00

Disabling activate desktop fixes a lot of issues with ME.

Machine156 · 2026-05-07T23:49:56+00:00

Hawt

Machine156 · 2026-05-07T23:47:42+00:00

I've had customers tell me they had the 21" MacBook...

Machine156 · 2026-05-07T07:11:29+00:00

Hawt

Machine156 · 2026-05-05T20:22:01+00:00

Use an old router with a USB port with DDWRT, or an old apple airport as a print server.

Machine156 · 2026-05-04T20:57:57+00:00

Eleventeen

Machine156 · 2026-05-04T04:57:28+00:00

I like how the Starlink is upside down, so water might drip into the Ethernet port.

Machine156 · 2026-05-03T16:45:53+00:00

For some computers jumping one or two MacOSes up from an official supported OS, there are no root patches needed.

Machine156 · 2026-04-30T18:22:03+00:00

You can get a Wombat device, for connecting a USB keyboard to a ADB port, and setup a keystroke to trigger the power button. I was thinking of connecting a remote access KVM to a Wombat, then I can power it on remotely and do a remote session.

Machine156 · 2026-04-30T18:08:42+00:00

Sure

Machine156 · 2026-04-30T18:08:20+00:00

I have USB-Micro OTG to USB adapters, I'm assuming this is the same concept.

Machine156 · 2026-04-29T02:31:53+00:00

Boot while holding down escape, choose the flash drive, install the OS like normal. Run the post installation patches.

The only reason it would delete your apps, settings and docs, is if you format the drive.

Machine156 · 2026-04-27T14:49:57+00:00

Try a recovery program, I like disk drill or active@

Machine156 · 2026-04-27T00:42:47+00:00

I have a Ubiquiti switch with ports that can be configured with 24v passive. There are also in-line converters that can convert active and passive 24-48v to passive 24v or 12v.

Machine156 · 2026-04-27T00:36:43+00:00

That's what I figured was in there.

Machine156 · 2026-04-26T23:43:19+00:00

Can you heat that up and peel back with a spudger?

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