Recent content by 30pin

Thanks to Ike for the lead to the SE/30 repair page. The screen was the "Irregular Vertical Rasters" as shown on the the web site. After seeing the damage on the mother board I am amazed that it was able to do anything at all !! I will try some type of cleaner to dissolve some of the...

Here are a few more pictures. I will do a more thorough clean up with the swabs and some alcohol soon. The area under the chip mount has some serious corrosion. I did not think that the pram battery would be so corrosive over so much area !!

I picked up a very nice SE/30, outside condition very clean. I booted it up and got a garbled screen. The hard drive was running, but very noisy. I have an external drive that I wanted to use to replace the internal drive with. I popped off the case and was surprised by the mass of brown...

I hope this one will work out for you ! I used to pick up external drives from our Value Village store. I picked up a HD20 and a HD40 @$7.99 each. I bought a TopDrive for the same price. I swapped in a 350mb drive into that one and it sits under my Mac Plus with O.S.7.0.1* on it. It...

A good cleaning will do wonders for the old floppy drive. I did the swap you are working on a few years ago. I swapped in a 1.44 drive out of a dead Classic. Between the dust build up and old grease the drive barely functioned. I swabbed and blew out lots of gunk using compressed air and...

I am going to leave the SE/30 cpu alone till I can pick up a real accellerator card. The SE/30 has 20mb of ram , a 1gb harddrive and is running O.S.7.0.1.* I am slowly loading it with vintage games and interesting apps. Thanks to all those who posted .

I was trying to get my emate charged up with no luck. The batteries were totally dead. No real surprize as they are the originals from 1997. Earlier in the year I had bought a damaged rc (radio control) car for $2.00 at a garage sale. It had a 9.6V battery pack in it. 8...

I have been tinkering with both my units. The PDQ is now running O.S.9.2 . I upped the ram from 128mb to 256mb. Feels faster and smoother. I downloaded Classilla ! The emate had a quick change of batteries as the originals were dead. The cell swap went well and everything fit back in. The...

The emates and the PDQ powerbook are both good finds. Having them working together is great ! I am working at getting my PDQ to see my Emate. No luck so far. I was hoping to use the ira ports to transfer files. How does your setup sync. ? My PDQ is running O.S.9.0.4.

Another thought on this swap. The 030 cpu is a more modern model. If I read the specs right it has a 256k cache on it. I was thinking that even if it only ran at 16mhz, there might be benefits because of its more modern design?? The cpu I am thinking about is a "MC68EC030RPC40C" . It said...

I am thinking about trying a cpu swap on the SE/30. There is a 40mhz 68030 cpu available. I am pretty sure I have a SE/30 motherboard with the socket style cpu. I think it would work, but the new cpu would only run at 16mhz. Without having the expensive accelerator, is there anyway to make...

My boys will get these two. It is a big step forward from the CF-27 Toughbook they usually share. I will try some of the motherboard fixes and see if I can get one of the other ones going for myself!

The 1.33ghz ibook is a bit more challenging!! I figured out that the video problem is due to a bad cable. The no start problem was actually a dead hardrive. I swapped in a good one and everything started up as it should. But it also has a faulty dvd-rom drive. So it looks like the third G4...

I did a bit of research on the web about swapping LCD's and got busy. It took me an hour to disassemble the two ibooks, swap in the good LCD, close everything up and test. I think I can do a swap in thirty minutes now that I got through it the first time. The now working G4 ibook has...

I just picked up these ibooks as parts from a local seller. All have issues. Three G4 Ibooks and two G3 Ibooks. No video at all on the 1.33ghz Ibook, it bongs on start up. Damaged screen(1/2 of it works) on the 1ghz G4, boots and runs fine. The third G4 is a 1.2ghz model, it bongs on start...