I just got the new chip in the mail. So I will desolder the old chip, do a clean up, and drop in the new one. I'll let ya know what happens. I suspect there are other things I need to fix as well 🤣
Looks like it's a heat gun with fancy nozzle to remove those chips. I poked around on the forums here and found the parts # for those chips (video muxes?) and got those ordered today. I'll lift those off and see what's going on under them.
Oh not really related I pulled the floppy, partially disassembled it to remove all the dust bunnies. Cleaned off the old grease on the drive (saw in another youtube video) and regreased it.
Even with the funky screen I put in a floppy and it's ejects nicely! So kind of a win.
It also has a...
I am guessing at a minimum the UE8 needs to come out and be replaced? I am not sure how to do that. I figured out the caps single it's just a single point of contact in two places.
Oh I did cleaned up the cap pads with the flux, new solder, wick, and repeat til clean (from Branchus). Still no...
Things I noticed is that the UE8 chip(?) has some corrosion on the side facing C7. Near C7 left hand side there was a spot of corrosion on what I think is a trace (fatter line)? I cleaned that up.
I get the attached pic which from this thread...
Afternoon all,
I came across a SE/30 of unknown status. Digging around on the forums here and watching Branchus Creations on youtube lead me to cracking the case open. The PRAM battery was intact but the caps were leaking or had leaked. I did a cleaned up and recapped the board with...