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I bought a replacement logic board for this machine, but I am still having problems. The machine chimes, but the screen only briefly turns on before going dark. An external monitor behaves the same way. Any ideas?

Think I've identified the problem. On the logic board, there's an inductor hanging in the air and a mosfet that also appears to be damaged.

Well... I think this thing is toast. I tried powering it up again, and although I got a chime and briefly a flickering screen, I also saw smoke come out of the modem port... sigh.

I actually haven't checked this. I only have one power adapter, an M4896, and no other machines I can test it with. Is there a straightforward way I can verify that it's working properly?

I recently acquired a Pismo in excellent cosmetic condition, but it isn't working properly. When I first got it, it would chime, then the screen would briefly turn on, but then it would go out. Disconnecting the PRAM battery didn't change this, although I then discovered that if I removed the...

I've built one of these cables before: The pinout for the card's power connector is as follows: GND GND GND GND +5V +5V +5V +12V

I have SUM II on floppies. If anyone wants it, I can image it and upload it somwehere

Yep, my SE's battery is soldered too. Still works, but probably not for long. It was, after all, "Made in West Germany", a place that ceased to exist before I was born :D

The peg that goes through the hole on the broken end is still mostly intact, so the SIMM seems to be secure in the socket. However, I'm not sure if the wires can easily be soldered to the pins on the underside of the SIMM while it is in the socket. The SIMM is 1MB. I have never soldered anything...

I spent about an hour today trying to find somebody who carries right-angle 30-pin SIMM sockets, and it seems that nobody at all sells them. It would therefore seem that I'm restricted to kludgy hacks. The SIMM is still held in place by the broken socket, so glue may not be necessary. Also, I...

It is a Total Systems 020/030 accelerator, with an SE PDS connector. It can also be attached to older Macs by using a killy clip (which I don't have). I forget the exact name of this accelerator, but it says PCB #80042 on it. I'll see if I can find the box and manual later (I know I have them...

I acquired a 68030 accelerator for a Macintosh SE years ago, and stupidly broke one of the 30-pin RAM sockets shortly after I got it. I do not have soldering skills, nor do I know anyone I would trust with something like this. Does anyone know how I might be able to get this fixed? I'm also...

I'm a really big fan of Basilisk II, specifically an old build from 2001 that's working nicely still on my Windows 7 x64 laptop!

I own a pre-FDHD SE as my only Mac, and I would like to upgrade its installation of System 7.0 to 7.1, which as I understand, was the last version released on 800k disks. If anybody has these 800k disks, could you please image them so I can install 7.1 on my SE? I have looked pretty hard on the...

Hmm, my SE does something similar when the System file is present but not the Finder file. Not sure if this is related though.