Recent content by danny.gonzalez.0861@gmai

All mechanical drives will fail, its not a matter of if but a matter of when. The when depends on use and handling as well as storage. Your Fireball is no exemption and if you value the data on the drive, you should back it up, not because it will fail tomorrow but simply because it will one day...

Yup, time for a BlueSCSI or similar solid state solution. I have only had two HDD's work when I got my MAC's of like 6 machines. One worked enough to boot into OS 7.1 and show the persons NSFW background but did not boot far enough to get any desktop icons; after that it never booted again. My...

MC68030 specs show max operating temperature of 70C which is close to 160F. You should be good to go with just a heatsink but make sure you have a little bit of airflow in the case to keep things in check.

Hey Muz, I have booted just fine w/o PRAM. Granted it will lose time and selected boot disk but it will still boot. Don't think that is your issue.

Hello Muz, FLU turned into Pneumonia but I am finally back at work and feeling much better. My 630 works fine. I was just saying that the reading I took that day was with the machine turned off. I know that MAC's of that era would kill video output of no monitor was connected. I can connect my...

Hello Muz, Sorry for such a late response. I have been sick as a dog and stuck in bed. Still not 100% but I had enough energy this morning to get the 630 out of the garage and test the requested pins. I am seeing 530ohms between ground and my RGB lines. This is with the 630 completely powered...

Smrieck might be on to something. When I was cleaning my drive I got up to finish dinner and my daughter pulled up on the top head quite hard. I never tried it as she left it as I could tell the flat plate spring on the rear of the head was quite deformed. It took a few tries to get it right...

Yup Daniel, Danny shoot I've even been called David and just go with the flow. I will check this for you when I get home tonight. I had the kids soccer practice yesterday and got home late.

Thanks! I am hoping my issue is my input board not being serviced but I am concerned something else might have gone bad. I enjoy the challenges when things break but sometimes these failures get the best of me :(

@imactheknife did you recap just the PSU and Deflection board using my list? After months, and I mean months of daily use, mine started to give a squiggly image and I am going to have to take it apart and see if something got messed up or if maybe recapping the input board will help my issue. I...

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I feel your pain on this one, I try to make my repairs look nice but I too struggle to find a nice solution for you. Maybe if you run a bodge around the connector and use the trace in between the connectors to join them. I made a rough drawing so you can see what I am talking about: (red line)...

Good Morning Muz_, The fact that your fan is not working with the 630's PSU would be my focus for now. You might have a flaky PSU and that might be an easy repair. Have you measured the voltages on the HDD connector? You should see almost all of the signals there minus the -12V of course. I...

So do you care to offer a solution for the OP to try? I'm trying to give them options that worked for me. I didn't reformat the SD card, just simply made a new blank image and reinstalled the OS. That worked for me and I want to see if it works for him. No harm in that, no? I think you are...

Here is the error my SD card had when I was using a premade image, as you can see it was only complaining about SCSI ID # 5: Hence why I am asking him to try a fresh installation. The file you provided might have been good when you created it but you yourself know that once it left your...