Qrani
Active member
I (somewhat) recently got a Power Macintosh 8100/80AV. When I first got it, I could never get it to start up... But just through reseating RAM, L2 Cache & ROM cards, and the video card, as well as cleaning off the motherboard, I've gotten it to start up most of the time. However, it's pretty unstable. A lot of times when trying to run a program it will crash, sometimes even just out of no where. One time I started it up and all of a sudden the sound was working. Then after a few restarts, it stopped. One of the common errors it gives is that there's "no FPU installed" or something along those lines, which would be odd, given that the CPU has an FPU built in. This leads me to believe that there's an issue with the CPU. There is some corrosion on some of the CPU's pins, I suspect from the poorly placed capacitors right next to it. But I've cleaned them off multiple times and they don't seem to be touching at all. I'm currently waiting on caps to arrive, which will hopefully fix any issues, but I'm afraid that it won't.