Recent content by Monkey Bytes

I have a MacBook that only has a Bluetooth card currently installed. The regular Airport card hookup on the motherboard is not soldered in. The customer wants to upgrade it with a wireless card. Has anyone here seen this before and was able to upgrade it? I could just solder the connector to the...

I think it used to be freeware, the old versions you can find http://appnee.com/partitionguru-pro/ Right click disk, search for lost partitions. You can then choose what partitions to keep, recover data without writing to disk, etc. Or you can actually save the new partition table to the disk...

More my territory. With Partition Guru, you can just open up the disk in a HEX editor. If the drive free space is all 0s or a repeating sequence, then the customer might have done the "Prepare drive for resale" option. Typically when doing a reset, it will either give the option to "Delete...

You could try something along these lines. That, or I've used PartitionGuru in the past to recover deleted windows partitions. I believe it can SEE and maybe recover mac partitions but will not let you do any file manipulation (it's a windows program).

Found one from Canada. $50+$40 shipping and claims to not be calibrated in any way. I will keep an eye out for Analog oscilloscopes in general. I see many ranging from $50-150, and most appear to have been discarded from schools. The general trend is "As-is, powers on, not properly calibrated."...

Doesn't seem to let you edit on mobile. Which is why I feel like if I make one myself, I'll never be able to use it on actual repair jobs. Still would be nice for playing with. I'm in Kansas in the US. There are maybe 2 TV repair shops and they're notoriously expensive. Is it super feasible to...

https://youtu.be/x19kwG-wJRI Would something like this do the necessary functions for troubleshooting clock signals and data lines? If so, $30 and 3 hours of my time will be much more manageable than $300+ for a real oscilloscope. This guy also has a video on making a variable lab bench power...

The workaround I've seen on AdvancedReworks seems to have been the "Pm me and I'll give it to you." If your messaging system was unmoderated or 100% private, liability ought to be shifted to the individuals doing the distributing rather than this forum as a whole. It's not like Banana Inc. will...

No Title I'm sure the timing will. The body needs to go through a series of stages to constitute a "sleep cycle." REM sleep being where you're closest to wakefulness and when you dream. There are phone apps and fitness trackers that track your motion in bed to estimate when you've entered...

This makes me think of some of the unusual indian (I think) sites that charge forum membership by the day. I've been guilty of paying $2 just so I could download an assload of schematics and boardviews only to never return. If the forum were public, then this website could at least contribute...

How much sleep do you guys typically get (or aim for)? I find myself spending 7-10 hours sleeping and yet I'm always tired. Tonight I'm going to attempt a polyphasic sleep cycle, taking 90 minute naps at 9am, 6:30pm, and 1:30am. This should reduce my sleep time down to 4.5 hours, giving me...

I have an A1278 2009 MBP that would not charge a battery. It will run off the battery, although the customer reported it suddenly powering off when on battery power. When the battery is plugged in not charging, the charger light remains green and never switches to Amber. When it is charging, the...

Update! I had, for the hell of it, tried the bios chip from my donor board. It booted up, fan spins OK, and gives me an error related to serial number (expected). I told the retailer the previous chip may have been defective. They sent me another. New chip does the quarter fan spin issue. So...

Hmm. Maybe too much lead in my diet. When originally replacing the ROM (first thing I tried, before joining this forum), I shifted some things around and I thought I had blown one of those components off the board. One of them, either R6101 or R6130, I noticed was completely missing! So I...

No Title When I've removed the ROM, the measurement is the same: about 0.8K. I physically remove r6101 and it tests at 3.3k out of circuit. I test resistance of the r6101 pins on the board and my multimeter is overloaded. Here are some of the measurements I have made. R6103 (in circuit) and...