aplmak
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Hey everyone.. so I literally spent almost all day recapping my outbound notebook. I highly recommend it as mentioned in another post. The power pack external supply had leaky 330uf caps. In the laptop itself.. mostly the only leaky ones were on the battery interface power board. Pretty nasty leaking too.. I had to scrape up the traces to get all the black off then clean and apply trace coating over it. Just some info to share to those Outbound Notebook owners out there. Taking it apart you have to be patient. There is a small tab under one of the rubber legs. Once you have that you have two tabs in the front. The front needs to be lifted first.. The rear where the ports are hook in there with 3 small plastic tabs. It's quite the project so be sure to do this when you have significant amount of time. I had to replace two added 1000pf 35v labeled as "102 and KLM". They jumper across on the large 220 cap in the battery power supply board (see photo below) and there is another one on the back of the main logic board that is jumped with an electrolytic cap that I replaced. When you do replace the logic board the small battery/power supply board is screwed in with a hex just so you know. Also when reassembling make sure to install the battery/power supply board first. I had one of the battery tabs above the battery drive cage.. I had to re-take it apart to get the tab under the cage.. so you install the battery power supply board first then plug the logic board into it.. there are a lot of other wires that hold the logic board in that need to be disconnected and reconnected.
Without going on about the recap I have to talk about something I never noticed with the Processor Card Board. The RAM installed in the 4 slots have the rear pins have a glued plastic strip on them. Any ideas why this is done?? Is this really needed?? Can I replace the RAM with larger 30 pin chips??? See what I am talking about in the photos below. It is running a 68030 at 33mhz and with a coprocessor and has Mac SE ROM's installed.. Is it is because it is not 32 bit clean?? I do have another processor board and that has regular 4MB chips in each of the 4 slots. I am not sure if Outbound's firmware does something or not.. or if I can put the 32bit control panel on it. It's very odd because the machine with the SE ROMS see's a total of 14MB. Anyone have any ideas on what's up with this configuration? I have run TattleTech and it says it is not 32bit compatible. I might try installing System32 control panel on it with my other board with larger size RAM.
Without going on about the recap I have to talk about something I never noticed with the Processor Card Board. The RAM installed in the 4 slots have the rear pins have a glued plastic strip on them. Any ideas why this is done?? Is this really needed?? Can I replace the RAM with larger 30 pin chips??? See what I am talking about in the photos below. It is running a 68030 at 33mhz and with a coprocessor and has Mac SE ROM's installed.. Is it is because it is not 32 bit clean?? I do have another processor board and that has regular 4MB chips in each of the 4 slots. I am not sure if Outbound's firmware does something or not.. or if I can put the 32bit control panel on it. It's very odd because the machine with the SE ROMS see's a total of 14MB. Anyone have any ideas on what's up with this configuration? I have run TattleTech and it says it is not 32bit compatible. I might try installing System32 control panel on it with my other board with larger size RAM.
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