Hi,
I accidentally lifted a pad on my Performa 475 when removing the capacitors.
I'm not sure how to repair this. I was wondering if someone with one of these machines (an LC 475/Performa 475/Quadra 605) could check some continuity on their board for me if they have a multimeter?
I need to...
Yeah I'm running a 16meg SIMM at the moment which I figure will probably be fine!
I have a bootable OS 7 Iomega ZIP disk thats working for now so I can at least confirm the SCSI system seems to be OK :)
I've got a floppy drive on the way and I think I'll probably grab a SCSI2SD as buying a...
Thanks :D
I just removed them. I don't have any spares and I have a bag of SIMMs hanging about.. I might just leave the onboard chips off.. unless there's any issue with that?
I've just powered on the board again and it's now showing a floppy drive with the ? on it, so it's looking good.
I...
It's alive!
My first ever hot air desoldering attempt was a 100% success. I removed the 10 onboard RAM chips. No pads lifted and with a socketed SIMM, now I have a grey screen with a movable cursor on it! no bongs of doom!
I've no HDD or floppy drive so I guess that's why the machine doesn't...
I've cleaned the board. It's now no worse or no better.
I have been now able to get continuity on all 4 data lines for each RAM chip to the PrimeTime chip, so it looks like those traces are OK! Unless the problem lies between CPU and PrimeTime.. :)
Yeah I was going to just use the pad for some physical stability - would definitely be easier to just run a wire!
The board runs exactly the same without the big SMD caps. No video output with the PRAM battery installed.
Does the board do the chimes of doom without the VRAM present? I'm...
So I got the caps off.... unfortunately lost a pad for one of the caps near the audio chip. When lifting it up, it dropped and adhered itself back down at an awkward angle. No matter how careful I was, it wasn't to be unfortunately.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5terj73dlq9gms2/p475_liftedpad.jpg...
PRAM battery has been delayed - I forgot those can't go by air, I think? So I've got the caps but the PRAM battery should hopefully be with me by Friday.
I guess I was putting off recapping because I figured since the current ones are OK looking that it might be a waste of money/time to recap...
Hi,
I picked up a really cheap Performa 475 on ebay as the board looked OK from what I could see of the screenshots.
I'm an Apple newbie so even though the auction stated chimes of doom, I figured I might be able to get the board working correctly with little effort - not the case...