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If you’ve ever used Windows 3.1, and gone into the Control Panel to change the system colors, you might have a theme called “Hot Dog Stand”. Well, my Performa 6118CD has a hardware fault that makes it look like I enabled that theme across the entire computer, including startup and down.

Since reflowing the HDI45 connector last week failed to resolve issue, it looks like on both of my HDI45 to DB15 video adapters could be defective… but it could still be the logic board. Without access to more hardware, I can’t narrow the issue down further.

Except that I bought a Power Macintosh 6100/60AV from eBay because it had the AV card, and more importantly, the right angle adapter installed. Now I potentially have another logic board for testing my adapters, as well as a path forward for a better video card.

Will the Power Macintosh work? Will it have global “Hot Dog Stand” Mode enabled as well? Will I break plastic removing parts from it? And will I have enough good parts at the end of the stream to build one good 6100series Mac? You’ll have to watch to find out!

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