SuperSVGA
Well-known member
So I ordered an SE/30 off eBay last week, and it just got today.
Opened it up, looked to be in pretty good condition. Fully sealed in bubble wrap, no damage from shipping (although the FedEx guy was putting the note on the door as he knocked, didn't even bring the package with him). The Apple badge on the front was missing, but that's fine, I have plenty of those.
Boot it up, got vertical lines and no chime.
I popped open the case and began to remove the network card (the reason I bought it mostly) and found it was a MacCon IIsi SE/30. Mystery solved there.
I fully removed the network card for now, then I removed the logic board. I looked over the board a bit. It's my first SE/30 board with a socketed processor, and the caps were interesting as well. They didn't appear to be visibly leaking yet. It also had a patch wire on the bottom that looked standard. I swapped the RAM out with known working SIMMs just to see if the solution was as easy as that.
I go to put the logic board back in to test and right as I'm putting it back in some sort of wasp/hornet comes peeking out of the place where I'm about to put the logic board. I have no idea how it got in there. My only theory is that it crawled in through the floppy drive and has been there for a while.
Maybe I'll get over my childhood fear and go back into the room someday.
Opened it up, looked to be in pretty good condition. Fully sealed in bubble wrap, no damage from shipping (although the FedEx guy was putting the note on the door as he knocked, didn't even bring the package with him). The Apple badge on the front was missing, but that's fine, I have plenty of those.
Boot it up, got vertical lines and no chime.
I popped open the case and began to remove the network card (the reason I bought it mostly) and found it was a MacCon IIsi SE/30. Mystery solved there.
I fully removed the network card for now, then I removed the logic board. I looked over the board a bit. It's my first SE/30 board with a socketed processor, and the caps were interesting as well. They didn't appear to be visibly leaking yet. It also had a patch wire on the bottom that looked standard. I swapped the RAM out with known working SIMMs just to see if the solution was as easy as that.
I go to put the logic board back in to test and right as I'm putting it back in some sort of wasp/hornet comes peeking out of the place where I'm about to put the logic board. I have no idea how it got in there. My only theory is that it crawled in through the floppy drive and has been there for a while.
Maybe I'll get over my childhood fear and go back into the room someday.
