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Macintosh II/IIx/IIfx Service Source

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The Macintosh II/IIx/IIfx volume of Apple's Service Source is a 87-page service manual covering the Macintosh II, IIx and IIfx. The PDF was distilled on 1 December 1995.

Service Source volumes are module-level documents. They give Apple's own specifications, symptom charts, take-apart procedures and module part numbers, but they do not carry schematics, board-level parts lists or component values, so they cannot be used to source a capacitor table. Where a figure below is quoted, it is quoted as Apple printed it.

Specifications as Apple prints them

Item As printed
CPU, Macintosh II Motorola 68020 at 15.6772 MHz, optional PMMU
CPU, IIx/IIfx Motorola 68030
Line voltage 100–240 VAC, automatically configured
Frequency 48–62 Hz, single phase
Maximum power II and IIx 220 W; IIfx 230 W (neither includes the monitor)
Battery replace if below 3.2 V

Contents

Reconstructed from the manual's own running headers; page numbers are positions in the PDF, so a citation can be checked directly.

  • Basics — Overview (pdf p. 3)
  • Specifications — Processor (pdf p. 5), Memory (pdf p. 7), Disk Storage (pdf p. 8), I/O Interfaces (pdf p. 9), Sound and Video (pdf p. 10), Electrical (pdf p. 11), Physical (pdf p. 12)
  • Troubleshooting — General (pdf p. 14), Symptom Charts (pdf p. 15)
  • Take Apart — Cover (pdf p. 33), Power Supply (pdf p. 36), Floppy Drive (pdf p. 38), Hard Drive (pdf p. 40), Drive Mount (pdf p. 44), Hard Drive Data Cable (pdf p. 47), Logic Board (pdf p. 49)
  • Upgrades — Mac IIx Logic Board Upgrade (pdf p. 54), Mac IIfx Logic Board Upgrade (pdf p. 56), PMMU Upgrade for Macintosh II (pdf p. 58), 1.4 MB Floppy Drive Upgrade for Macintosh II (pdf p. 61)
  • Additional Procedures — Battery Verification (pdf p. 69), Battery Replacement (pdf p. 71), Battery Holder Board (pdf p. 74), Macintosh IIfx SCSI Termination (pdf p. 80)

Notable content

Additional Procedures carries Macintosh IIfx SCSI Termination, which is the source of the IIfx's distinctive black terminator requirement, and a Battery Holder Board replacement that no other volume has. Larry Pina's Macintosh II Repair and Upgrade Secrets measures the same cells independently and agrees with Apple's threshold: Tadiran 3.6 V lithium cells read 3.2–3.85 V when good, 2.3–3.1 V when weak and are dead below 2.3 V.

What this manual does not contain

  • No schematic, no board-level parts list and no component values.
  • The NuBus and PDS power budgets are not broken out per slot in this volume the way they are in the Quadra 840AV manual.

Pages that cite this document

Download: Macintosh_ii.iix.iifx.pdf (605 KB)

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