Elfen
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Damn! I swear! I took out my IIcI in a IIcx case with the Daystar 040 Accelerator, and see if I can give it a look over with the others for a quickie recap and repairs. Plugged in the display and power, pressed the On/Off Button and no audio. But a few seconds later video came on! Then it gave me a flashing "?" in a disk icon. Silly me, I disconnected the drives to put it in storage.
But woah! Plugging in the drives, they boot up! And with the Daystar Accelerator in it - it gave me a Happy Mac with "040 CPU" on it's tiny belly! It booted up to System 7.6.1 But there was no Audio. This (and the others) were considered dead machines that need serious recapping. And this really needs a recapping!!!
As stated before, some kind of crap/dirt wound up in the stored machines. In this case - the dirt and crap interacted with the cap goo and soaked it up protecting the board! Except for the audio part by the NuBus Slots. So I'm guessing that cap goo there did its damage. Damn.
And though I am suspecting it might be my VGA Adaptor, the IIci's on-board video is not working. It is working with the high end 24bit Apple Video card that I have. Strange - I have 2 of these cards, one on the IIci and IIfx and they both work fine and they do not require a recap as they have tantalum caps. The 2 8-bit video cards that I have failed and they do need a recap as they have electrolytic caps and the goo leaked. Funny - they both give "Chimes of Death" on the IIfx; after the hard drive starts to boot but the video screen is black!
The others did not fair better. Two came on and then after few minutes failed with the blinking power LED on one and needing to hold down the power button to hear the fan go on on the other. The 2 IIsi's are dead as door nails- no power light, fan, bong - nothing! But they are all repairable. At best they need a recap. At most, some traces need to be fixed.
I'll be sending this board out first to be recapped, as it is working except for the audio. I will try to work on the others when I have time. Seeing my fist Mac having some signs of life makes me happy!
But woah! Plugging in the drives, they boot up! And with the Daystar Accelerator in it - it gave me a Happy Mac with "040 CPU" on it's tiny belly! It booted up to System 7.6.1 But there was no Audio. This (and the others) were considered dead machines that need serious recapping. And this really needs a recapping!!!
As stated before, some kind of crap/dirt wound up in the stored machines. In this case - the dirt and crap interacted with the cap goo and soaked it up protecting the board! Except for the audio part by the NuBus Slots. So I'm guessing that cap goo there did its damage. Damn.
And though I am suspecting it might be my VGA Adaptor, the IIci's on-board video is not working. It is working with the high end 24bit Apple Video card that I have. Strange - I have 2 of these cards, one on the IIci and IIfx and they both work fine and they do not require a recap as they have tantalum caps. The 2 8-bit video cards that I have failed and they do need a recap as they have electrolytic caps and the goo leaked. Funny - they both give "Chimes of Death" on the IIfx; after the hard drive starts to boot but the video screen is black!
The others did not fair better. Two came on and then after few minutes failed with the blinking power LED on one and needing to hold down the power button to hear the fan go on on the other. The 2 IIsi's are dead as door nails- no power light, fan, bong - nothing! But they are all repairable. At best they need a recap. At most, some traces need to be fixed.
I'll be sending this board out first to be recapped, as it is working except for the audio. I will try to work on the others when I have time. Seeing my fist Mac having some signs of life makes me happy!
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and neither one will get it to play audio. The System 6.0.8 and stock System 7.1 Sound control panel won't allow me to put Sound In to External CD the way the Classic would-and the way an LC III would with the same software years ago!
