Supposedly the SE/30 takes a while to boot if you have the RAM maxed out (unless you have a Rominator II installed which disables the RAM test). Thing is, I have the original stock Apple ROM in mine, as well as 65MB of RAM installed, and mine gets to the happy Mac screen in just seconds...
Reposting this thread since the old forum ate it:
My Studio Display I’d recently purchased on eBay had a failing flyback transformer, which was unfortunate since the plastics and the tube itself were all in great condition. The monitor would make a loud click/popping spark noise and the image...
Got some 3M 8810 thermal tape (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QSHPH8E) and a little fan/heatsink combo (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZTM539S) and installed them in my Mac. Hooked up the fan to the 5V hard drive power and stuck the heatsink on the CPU, and it all fits perfectly. The...
Most of the 68040s that were in Macs were the XC models. Motorola took a long time to fully qualify the 68040 as a MC part according to something I read online a while ago. The XC chip in the photo I took is the original cpu from my Quadra 605.
Bought an MC68040 to upgrade my Quadra 605 from this eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-MC68040RC40A-New-MPU-ColdFire-Processor-RISC-32bit-40MHz-179-Pin-PGA-Tray/323076959423
The image showed the L88M mask revision which is supposed to be the one that runs nearly cold. I figured it was...
As an update, I tried hooking up the board of my better M1212 to the CRT from the worse one, and after adjusting all the convergence/etc I still couldn't get the focus any better than it was. I'm thinking this may just be a high-hours CRT. Maybe some day I'll try recapping the board, for now...
I have two Macintosh Color Displays (M1212). These monitors have Sony Trinitron CRTs inside. One of them is still pretty bright and sharp. The other, when I received it, was quite dim even when I turned the front knobs up. I eventually took it apart and adjusted the G2 to where the brightness...
I haven’t recapped it yet. Obviously needs it, being 30 years old, and the audio is very faint which is a telltale sign at least those caps are dying. Tonight I took it all apart, saw a little bit of oxidation/possible corrosion on some SMT chip pins around the video area of the motherboard...
Finally graduated from lurking, and I'm hoping for some repair advice. My SE/30 is showing scanlines repeated and flickering. Has anyone encountered this before?
I took a video, you can see it on reddit: