Recent content by Plottem

Good idea!! I'll do the test! thanks!

Thanks for your answer, the temperature gets too high, you have undone the silicone that holds the fan wires, and these are getting shiny, and it smells like burning.

Good morning, I am restoring a Macintosh SE/30 that I received as a gift. The case is the following, the motherboard did not have the Motorola MC68030rc16 shock type processor (someone removed it to sell the gold) I bought the same one but the seller sent me a MC68030RC30C, instead of the...

Hello, I have exactly the same error on my portable, did you manage to solve it? All the best

Many thanks!! Regards

Good morning, time has passed since this thread but I find myself with the problem that I can't find a spare part for this F1 its fuse resistance?, would you be so kind as to tell me where I can buy it or the values to look for it? All the best

Thank you very much, I must say that what I have dropped is only the part that supports the unit, this part is the one that seems to be magnetized. Please do not drop the unit, I may not explain it well! but after 3 weeks it still works perfect, I turn it on daily to check it.

Hello friends, I wanted to tell you how I solved the floppy drive problem. After thinking about it a lot, trying different cables and various floppy drives, I came to the conclusion that floppy drives only worked when they were out of the mac case. Then I remembered reading that it could be...

Sorry about the formatting error in the text, I wrote from the iphone and I don't know what happened, I'll try to change it. Yes, indeed I have always used the same cable, both inside and outside, and outside it works and inside it doesn't, how strange. Interesting the text is similar to what...

Good night from Spain!! Merry Christmas to all! I tell you, I have restored a 512k with an 800k floppy drive. Apparently it works fine, but the floppy drive many times does not work, already going crazy, I started to do tests and I realized that when I take out the floppy drive from the mac it...

Thank you very much techknight, I will try to wash the board well again, before doing anything else and I will to bake the board again at 175 degrees F which is about 80 degrees C for 15 or 20 minutes as I read in another of your post (will be enough temperature?), I will put photos as you said...

Thank you very much for your input LaPorta !! I will check the ground, the truth is that it had not occurred to me and it may be some derivation. I'll also check the welds on the new capacitors for any that aren't perfect.

Good morning everyone from spain, I have restored a 1989 portable macintosh, model m5120, it has been recped, cleaned and baked following the teacher's instructions techknight. But I still do not work 100% perfect. I tell you the problems he has to see if you can help me: The first problem is...