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Performa 500 Series Service Source

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The Performa 500 Series volume of Apple's Service Source is a 161-page service manual covering the Performa 550, 560, 575, 577 and 578. The PDF was distilled on 5 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

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Item As printed
CPU, 550 and 560 Motorola 68030 at 33 MHz, built-in MMU
CPU, 575/577/578 Motorola 68LC040 at 33 MHz
Line voltage 100–240 VAC, universal supply
Frequency 47–63 Hz, single phase
Maximum power 120 W
Battery replace if below 3.0 V

Contents

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

  • Basics — Product Information (pdf p. 3)
  • Specifications — Processor (pdf p. 6), Memory (pdf p. 7), Disk Storage (pdf p. 9), I/O Interfaces (pdf p. 10), I/O Devices (pdf p. 12), Sound and Video (pdf p. 13), Electrical (pdf p. 14), Physical (pdf p. 15), Environmental (pdf p. 16)
  • Troubleshooting — General (pdf p. 18), Symptom Charts (pdf p. 19)
  • Take Apart — Rear Housing (pdf p. 36), Fan (pdf p. 39), Analog Board (pdf p. 41), I/O Door (pdf p. 47), Logic Board (pdf p. 49), Drive Bezel (pdf p. 50), Floppy Drive (pdf p. 52), CD-ROM Drive (pdf p. 56), Hard Drive (pdf p. 60), Chassis Harness Assembly (pdf p. 64), CRT (pdf p. 84), Internal Microphone (pdf p. 87), Front Bezel (pdf p. 90)
  • Upgrades — Macintosh Processor Upgrade (pdf p. 93)
  • Additional Procedures — Battery Verification (pdf p. 116), Battery Replacement (pdf p. 118)
  • Adjustments — Geometry (pdf p. 122), Video (pdf p. 130), Light Meter Setup (pdf p. 142), Convergence (pdf p. 148), Geometric Distortion (pdf p. 151), Yoke (pdf p. 156)

Notable content

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Apple's Light Meter Setup is the step most often skipped: the video and convergence adjustments that follow it are meaningless without it, and Apple specifies the meter and lens (Model L-248) to be used.

What this manual does not contain

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  • No schematic, no parts list, no component values — the analogue board is a module.
  • The Adjustments chapter is Geometry, Video, Light Meter Setup, Convergence, Geometric Distortion and Yoke. There is no voltage adjustment.

Pages that cite this document

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This machine contains a high-vacuum picture tube and a live analogue board. Follow CRT Discharge Procedure before working inside one.

Download: Performa_500_series.pdf (1.4 MB)