First, a little background. While I'm new to 68kMLA, I'm a long-time collector and enthusiast of old hardware of all kinds, Apple gear especially. At my peak, I had a IIfx, a IIci, about ten assorted compact Macs, and all manner of goodies and peripherals (at one point, the IIfx was driving a pair of gorgeous 19" Radius two-page displays). Sadly, an international move meant that I had to part with most of that gear some years ago. The IIfx came with me, but has languished in the basement for the best part of a decade, first scavenged for parts, then ignored as other interests and commitments (old cars, in particular) came first.
Lacking anything better to do this winter, and an unheated garage being rather unappealing for my car projects, I thought I'd have a go at resurrecting it, with an eye to putting to good use an A/UX install disc that I've acquired. I got as far as putting some fresh PRAM batteries in and applying power. The power supply fan spun up as expected, but was cut short by a rather spectacular display of fireworks from capacitor C1 on the logic board. I ran across this thread which seems to discuss a similar issue, but I was wondering if anyone could point me to any other potential gotchas and things that I should fix preemptively to avoid any other such disasters. The system is clean, with no evidence of battery leakage, and all the caps look fine (though, C1 looked fine too, until it caught fire...).
Assuming I can get the machine to boot, I'm going to need to find a hard disk for it, as the original was long since 'borrowed' for use in another machine. Since I have no desire to mess with half-dead old SCSI-1 disks, and have an surplus of SD cards on hand, the SCSI2SD looks appealing. However, I remember how touchy the SCSI bus on the IIfx is, and wondered if anybody has had any experiences, good or bad, with a SCSI2SD board in one.
Lacking anything better to do this winter, and an unheated garage being rather unappealing for my car projects, I thought I'd have a go at resurrecting it, with an eye to putting to good use an A/UX install disc that I've acquired. I got as far as putting some fresh PRAM batteries in and applying power. The power supply fan spun up as expected, but was cut short by a rather spectacular display of fireworks from capacitor C1 on the logic board. I ran across this thread which seems to discuss a similar issue, but I was wondering if anyone could point me to any other potential gotchas and things that I should fix preemptively to avoid any other such disasters. The system is clean, with no evidence of battery leakage, and all the caps look fine (though, C1 looked fine too, until it caught fire...).
Assuming I can get the machine to boot, I'm going to need to find a hard disk for it, as the original was long since 'borrowed' for use in another machine. Since I have no desire to mess with half-dead old SCSI-1 disks, and have an surplus of SD cards on hand, the SCSI2SD looks appealing. However, I remember how touchy the SCSI bus on the IIfx is, and wondered if anybody has had any experiences, good or bad, with a SCSI2SD board in one.
