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Performa/Power Macintosh 6400 and 6500 Series Service Source

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The Performa/Power Macintosh 6400 and 6500 Series volume of Apple's Service Source is a 232-page service manual for the Performa 6400/180 and 6400/200, the Power Macintosh 6400/180, 6400/200, 6500/225, 6500/250, 6500/275 and 6500/300, and the international Performa 6410 and 6420. The PDF was produced in FrameMaker and is dated 19 February 1997.

Like other Service Source volumes, it works at module level: a Basics chapter describing the family, specifications, symptom charts, take-apart procedures, upgrades, additional procedures and an exploded view.

Specifications as printed

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Item As printed
CPU PowerPC 603ev: 180 MHz (6400/180, 6410), 200 MHz (6400/200, 6420), 225, 250, 275 or 300 MHz (6500)
Processor bus 64-bit; 40 MHz (6400), 50 MHz (6500)
RAM Performa 6400: 16 MB, to 136 MB in two 168-pin fast-page DIMM sockets (70 ns). Power Macintosh 6400: 16 MB (32 MB with Zip drive), to 136 MB with EDO DIMMs (60 ns). 6500: 32, 48 or 64 MB, to 128 MB with 5 V buffered EDO DIMMs
Line voltage 90–130 or 180–264 V AC, configured manually; 47–63 Hz
Power 6400: 220 W maximum continuous. 6500: 140 W maximum continuous
Dimensions 16 × 7 13/16 × 16 7/8 in (406 × 198 × 428 mm), H × W × D
Battery Lithium (Apple's replacement warning); replace if below 3.0 V on the 10 V DC range

Contents

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From the manual's running heads, with PDF page numbers.

  • Basics: System Overview (p. 3), Configurations (p. 4), Voltage Switch (p. 17), Subwoofer Balance Control (p. 20), TV/FM Radio Tuner Card (p. 22), Digital Audio Video (DAV) Technology (p. 26), Sound (p. 28), Expansion Bay (p. 31), IDE Hard Drive (p. 33), PCI Technology (p. 34), Communications (p. 36), Modems (p. 37), DIMMs (p. 39), Cache Expansion (p. 43), 6500 Supported Monitor Resolutions (p. 44), Front View (p. 47), Rear View (p. 48), Logic Board (p. 49), Repair Strategy (p. 50), Warranty/AppleCare/ARIS (p. 53)
  • Specifications: Introduction (p. 55), Processor (p. 56), Memory (p. 58), Disk Storage (p. 62), I/O Interfaces (p. 64), I/O Devices (p. 70), Electrical (p. 71), Physical (p. 72), Environmental (p. 73)
  • Troubleshooting: General and Symptom Charts (p. 75)
  • Take Apart: Front Bezel (p. 98), Expansion Bay (or Zip Drive) Cover (p. 101), Top Cover (p. 104), Side Panels (p. 106), Rear Panel (p. 109), Left Metal Panel (p. 114), CD-ROM Drive (p. 118), Floppy Drive (p. 120), Hard Drive (p. 125), Front Panel Control Board (p. 129), Zip Drive (p. 132), Logic Board (p. 136), Video Card (p. 143), PCI Covers (p. 144), PCI Adapter (p. 146), NTSC Video-Out Card (6500) (p. 149), Power Supply (p. 151), Subwoofer/Speaker Assembly (p. 156), Feet (p. 160), TV/FM Tuner Card (p. 162), Audio/Monitor Connection Subassembly (p. 165)
  • Upgrades: TV/FM Tuner Card (p. 172), DRAM DIMM Upgrade (p. 178), Communications Card (p. 187), PCI Card (p. 193), Avid Cinema Card (p. 202), High Performance Module (Cache) (p. 206)
  • Additional Procedures: Battery Verification (p. 209), Battery Replacement (p. 211), Logic Board Reset (p. 213), 6500: Distinguishing Video Jitter from Blur (p. 217), Blurry Video Solution (p. 221), 6500: Software Installation Errors and L2 Cache Identification (p. 224), Processor Fan (p. 229)
  • Exploded View (p. 232)

What it settles

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  • The supply is switched manually: set the voltage switch to 115 for 100–130 V and 230 for 200–270 V, and Apple warns that a wrong setting can damage the computer. Basics includes a table of mains voltages by country (Voltage Switch, PDF pp. 17–19).
  • Power Macintosh 6500 video faults. Video jitter (pixels shimmering at the edges of the screen, windows and dialogs) affects 225 and 250 MHz boards and is cured by a reworked logic board, 661-1322 (225 MHz) or 661-1332 (250 MHz). Blurry video over the whole screen at 832 × 624 and above is cured by the audio/monitor connection subassembly 922-2996. Apple gives the blur serial range as XB708xxxxx to XB723xxxxx; the jitter range is XB708 to XB719 in the symptom chart and XB708 to XB718 in Additional Procedures (PDF pp. 79–80, 217–223).
  • For poor video on a 6500, Apple's first check is that the resolution is 1152 × 870 or lower (symptom chart).

What this manual does not contain

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  • No schematic and no component-level parts list or values.
  • No adjustments chapter; these machines have no built-in display.

Pages that cite this document

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Download: Powermac.perf_6400.6500.pdf (5.7 MB)

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