Swolfington
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I recently picked up a Quadra 700, and unfortunately the battery had leaked a little bit onto the logic board. Can anyone take a look and see how bad it appears? I've never dealt with this kind of stuff before, but it doesn't appear too bad? I got it off ebay, and the auction said it powered up (they had a picture of it with the green LED lit), but I haven't dared to even plug in the power. it looks like it lost a couple of SMD bits for sure, and clearly the battery connections are a complete wash. The battery case was completely disconnected (rattling around the case when I got it home) and the metal contacts were completely gone. I saved the plastic battery holder just in case, as the plastic didn't seem to be too worse for wear. The SIMM closest to the battery has some corrosion spattering, but it doesn't appear to have completely eaten away through anything..though my hopes aren't high on bringing that one back to life I suppose.
Sadly, what saved everything else was the the machine must have been upside down, because the entire underside of the floppy drive is rusted through. It was so bad I couldn't even manage to unscrew it from the drive bay because the corrosion has filled the screw head to the point that I couldn't get a driver in there.
On the plus side, there was a PPC upgrade card and a radius videocard, seemingly untouched by the battery juice.
I've attached a few key pictures, and here's an album with some more stuff https://imgur.com/a/DBBsy
Thanks!
Sadly, what saved everything else was the the machine must have been upside down, because the entire underside of the floppy drive is rusted through. It was so bad I couldn't even manage to unscrew it from the drive bay because the corrosion has filled the screw head to the point that I couldn't get a driver in there.
On the plus side, there was a PPC upgrade card and a radius videocard, seemingly untouched by the battery juice.
I've attached a few key pictures, and here's an album with some more stuff https://imgur.com/a/DBBsy
Thanks!