I guess this would qualify as some sort of sequel to a part #1 (here: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/se-30-recap-with-lifted-pad.37469/#post-405579)
To recap. I have owned this particular machine for a long time. ~4 years ago, i got the simasi pattern and did the full logic board recap. Everything went on normally from there on working perfectly fine. One year ago, it suddenly started to misbehave one day (when starting up i got the initial chime and after a short while a mouse cursor that i could move, but after 3-5 seconds everything would freeze up. The image itself (the grey background) looked perfectly normal without any artefacts or similar. But it froze. I also noticed that HDD activity was gone and so was the FDD activity. The lights were on but there was nobody home so to speak.
Naturally, i started to google this and i eventuall found this excellent book/pdf that described the SE and SE/30 most common issues and solutions to them. Unfortunately, neither of the descriptions matched my case. During this time, i bought an analog board recap kit from Console5, thinking it may have something to do with this. But shortly after this, i put it all on ice (as i have and use a PB170 and PB190 where i upgraded both with SSD (the PB170 with a BlueScsi w. wifi for wireless networking capability).
Today, i took my SE/30 apart, separating the analog board from the PSU, etc and scrutinized everything (and saw the massive amount of glue that Apple applied to capacitors, etc). While hyping up for the task of getting through tons of glue and recapping the analog board, i googled this issue some more and now i found a number of cases where people basically suggested a removal of the ROM board (BMoW in my case) and all ram chips and to clean them all (i therefore cleaned everything with IPA and reassembled it back, making sure that everything was in place snugly.
After connecting everything (incl. flyback connector to CRT) i thought why not test it (oh, i removed the pram battery for a few minutes also for good measure. I replace the original one a long time ago to a "SAFT" model).
Ok, time for the big finale. Connecting everything back and starting it up, i again get the chime AND now i get the familiar sound from the FDD, etc. Awesome. But not really...
Because now my screen only show a tiny "dot" in the middle of it
The only thing i can think of is that i did not re-insert the "suction cup with two metal prongs" properly inside the CRT. Does that sound like a feasible cause of this problem?
As i started the machine up this evening, would i need to discharge the CRT in order to re-insert this thing?
To recap. I have owned this particular machine for a long time. ~4 years ago, i got the simasi pattern and did the full logic board recap. Everything went on normally from there on working perfectly fine. One year ago, it suddenly started to misbehave one day (when starting up i got the initial chime and after a short while a mouse cursor that i could move, but after 3-5 seconds everything would freeze up. The image itself (the grey background) looked perfectly normal without any artefacts or similar. But it froze. I also noticed that HDD activity was gone and so was the FDD activity. The lights were on but there was nobody home so to speak.
Naturally, i started to google this and i eventuall found this excellent book/pdf that described the SE and SE/30 most common issues and solutions to them. Unfortunately, neither of the descriptions matched my case. During this time, i bought an analog board recap kit from Console5, thinking it may have something to do with this. But shortly after this, i put it all on ice (as i have and use a PB170 and PB190 where i upgraded both with SSD (the PB170 with a BlueScsi w. wifi for wireless networking capability).
Today, i took my SE/30 apart, separating the analog board from the PSU, etc and scrutinized everything (and saw the massive amount of glue that Apple applied to capacitors, etc). While hyping up for the task of getting through tons of glue and recapping the analog board, i googled this issue some more and now i found a number of cases where people basically suggested a removal of the ROM board (BMoW in my case) and all ram chips and to clean them all (i therefore cleaned everything with IPA and reassembled it back, making sure that everything was in place snugly.
After connecting everything (incl. flyback connector to CRT) i thought why not test it (oh, i removed the pram battery for a few minutes also for good measure. I replace the original one a long time ago to a "SAFT" model).
Ok, time for the big finale. Connecting everything back and starting it up, i again get the chime AND now i get the familiar sound from the FDD, etc. Awesome. But not really...
Because now my screen only show a tiny "dot" in the middle of it
The only thing i can think of is that i did not re-insert the "suction cup with two metal prongs" properly inside the CRT. Does that sound like a feasible cause of this problem?
As i started the machine up this evening, would i need to discharge the CRT in order to re-insert this thing?
