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I tested it tonight: starting with HD disconnected=question mark. I swapped the board into the other SE/30 and got the same as on the first: a chime, a cursor, and no booting or question mark. So I'm 99% positive it's the board. Any ideas where I can start looking now?

I gave up for the moment on my Classic, and started on one of my my SE/30s. It had no startup chime, no drive activity, and the screen showed the simisimac pattern. I recapped with the Console5 set and cleaned the board with 99% IPA. It's not the neatest soldering job I've ever seen, but...

Update: it looks like the corrosion was holding some of it together. I'm going to hold off doing anything to it until I get a little better at this stuff. Or I find a Classic MB for cheap! (On a related note, I did my first recap on one of my SE/30s last night, and it was mostly successful! I'm...

I started my Classic last night after waaaay too long, got no bong and a simasimac-like pattern on the screen. I cracked it open and discovered quite a mess. Battery gunk and corrosion all over the place. I've got the chassis soaking in Evaporust, and I soaked the logic board in IPA overnight &...

I found a manual online that might help. Page 7 shows all the switch and jumper locations on the CC model: https://siber-sonic.com/mac/etc/MAXpowrG3manual.pdf

Oh, I wasn't aware that they all worked. Good to know!

I think that's only for Voodoo 2 cards, though.

Any PCI-based Power Mac will be able to run it, with drivers and the pass-through cable, of course. Stability suffers once you get into OS 8 and above, because the drivers never got updated after Techworks and 3DFX went under. Are you sure that's an 8MB Power 3D II, though? That appears to be...