Thanks Knez that's great!

that "a" app from the DVD studio 1.5 files is broken, maybe someone wants to fix that by supplying a new one.

surfer serials also have been added to where it belongs.

There's a thread with some info at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-mini-g4-will-not-output-to-hdmi-via-dvi.2206219/

Lets not confuse gert79 regarding capacitors that he might need, ok. Those Panasonics are just fine.

* I mentioned OsCon only as a curious fact in the context of low ESR.

Also Panaflo, Comair Rotron, and Delta for fans.

Oscon are solid polymer aluminum capacitors, now more or less standard across the industry for computer applications. They are limited to low voltages, however. One advantage is not having any liquid to potentially leak out.

Sanyo also developed the Poscap, a solid polymer tantalum capacitor. Unlike standard tantalums with a manganese dioxide cathode, the Poscap won't combust if damaged.

Both types are now available from multiple manufacturers.

I have fixed this in the new theme, so all images resize to the width of the post, so no more scrolling horizontally. So no need to manually crop or make images smaller. Everyone gets to see the full picture, so to say

You might need to clear your browser cache to be able to see the changes.

Thanks for pointing this out, aBc!

Caps.
Low ESR is always good.
Higher voltage is also good. FYI -higher voltage caps are more expensive to manufacture (thicker films).

Did you know that Silicon Graphics used very expensive ulra-low ESR caps by Sanyo called "OsCon" in their machines?

Fans.
Sunon is good industrial stuff. I've seen Sunon fans in Apple's IIci, IIcx, Q700 and PM7100 PSUs.
Papst is good industrial stuff too, although, I have a feeling that quality went a bit down when they moved production out of Germany. I've used 8412 L(?) model in the past for my non-Apple projects.
Noctua looks like something from a "boutique department" to me. Lots of TMs, lots of smoke and mirror. Designed in Austria, but made in ..?

So well not much happened here?

By now I found a decent fan replacement and caps, but of course the caps have long lifetime and low ESR - I am unsure if they are good for the QS supply since original caps are rated quite low voltage, I need to research more if it is smart to put slightly larger voltage tolerance/Low ESR.

I did not go for a Noctua fan as it is very expensive and does not really move a lot of air, I will probably use a MagLev fan which can run low speed at very low voltage.

I sourced from a Polish retailer but the types of parts I will go for should be available from mouser and the usual sources aswell.

I spent some time to select these so I cannot guarantee that this will work but I hope so, especially the caps.

New caps will be from Panasonic, I will select fitting types from the EEUFR0J222B series. They are green/gold or green/silver, not super expensive.

The fan will be a Sunon MF80251V3-1000U-G99 and is not super expensive but ticks all the right boxes for me.

I looked at more expensive EBM Papst and other fans but they don't come with magnetic levitation bearing and go only at high speed. As said the Sunon runs on voltages as low as 5VDC and you can really balance things well to have less noise but still proper airflow.

Sure the Noctua fans are an elite design but this is something for gamer PCs imho. Sunon is a well known brand and their MagLev fans seem to be something that can last for a long time without any kind of bearing that will wear out.

I spent about two hours of comparing parameters and datasheets for the fan so my choice can certainly not be changed much anymore... If this helps someone I am ok with it too, but please don't complain if this fan doesn't work for you, I only know for me it might be the best one.

The caps are a preselection, I will post detailed partnumbers later and also report if they worked in the end, once I refurbish the whole thing.

As of now I have not ordered anything yet, I also need some tactiles for my MPC1000 and what not, so I can order all these things in one big order.

There is still a pending thing which would be the probable release of my disassembly photos. To be honest I would prefer to see them wrapped up in a pdf file. Posting them on this forum will make them unreadable imho, a tech would want a pdf file that he can work thru page by page, sequence of events like.

Of course the pdf will include proper warnings and lightning strike icons... But: Ultimately I still don't want to be associated with it. I cannot bear the responsibility of *someone* following these photos and eventually hurting or killing himself. So the best would be to keep this in an "inner" circle of the community, where the techs have access to it.

As soon as this would be out in the wild everyone and his grandmother will approach QS PSU repair... There is no info anywhere how to do it and in Europe "Golytronic" does not repair them anymore... He had Schematics for all the PSUs and knew everything about it, also how to measure and load test them.

As far as I know his business was shut down due to death... May he rest in piece.

I don't know how capable the repair Techs in USA are, but shipping a PSU overseas is not a cheap option and anyways a PSU has to be supplied, even the broken ones are not cheap anymore... I searched several weeks to buy my spare for a high price from UK...

No I don't want to fix European PSUs for a living, I just want my supply and the spare to work

Okay. Since we’ve so many sample images to view now… would you concur that 540 pixels is the “standard” maximum image size for the Mac OS 9 Lives 2.0 theme, or perhaps slightly smaller for your 1920 monitor? If so, how much smaller / what size?

540px seems to be correct. And no, it's not smaller on 1920 wide monitor. You can always count the pixels i.e measure them in my screenshots which are at full 1280 or 1920 resolution.

One other observation.. Judging by this post in a poll thread that I've set up, could it be that v2 theme was created on a smallish display?

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7091.msg54884#msg54884

Also, check the statistics of that poll on display sizes that people are using. Maybe another poll about what size of displays, including portable devices, people are using to browse this site would be in order?

(Judging by the content of questions that get asked here, I'd say that 2/3 of newcomers to OS9 come from Win/Linux/OSX world and they use those machines/displays in their daily lives. Not everyone is on Classilla+G3/G4.)


P.S. @aBc - since you're a moderator, feel free to delete my posts, if you think that they clutter your "how to" thread.

Okay. Since we’ve so many sample images to view now… would you concur that 540 pixels is the “standard” maximum image size for the Mac OS 9 Lives 2.0 theme, or perhaps slightly smaller for your 1920 monitor? If so, how much smaller / what size?

As for the Blu theme… whatever maximum (non-scroll under the Mac OS 9 Lives 2.0 theme) might be the “standard” image size with the clickable option to view images larger? Of course, taking into consideration whatever you deem to be the maximum viewable size for the 1920.

*Although even larger images via the click option are still possible (perhaps with some limited scroll).

1480 - YES, when browser window set to full screen and 100% magnification.

Thanks. I’ll work with that… or with ~1400 for the time being and just see how that goes for now.