volvo242gt
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Snagged a RasterOps 24XLi video card for $58.50, plus shipping and tax. Looks like it'll be a bit pokey on the IIci, but, eh, 24-bit color.
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What I've received as of late...
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volvo242gt
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Picked up another IIci motherboard. This one doesn't seem to have corrosion on UH1, so am hopeful that after a recap, it'll be better than the board I currently have installed in the IIci. Got it for $75, plus shipping and tax.
volvo242gt
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Just tested it with the Rasterops video card. Yup, works. So, just need to send it over to @James1095 and have him go through it, capacitor-wise, then to pop it into my IIci case.
volvo242gt
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@AppaloosaMac and I were finally able to meet up. Picked up the LCIII from him, and gave him $20, plus a copy of Flight Simulator II, and the Bernoulli drive I picked up earlier. Machine seems to be in good working condition. Running System 7.5 on its Conner 40MB drive. 36MB of RAM installed. Floppy drive needs a good servicing, but that's to be expected.
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3lectr1cPPC
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Nice. Recapped yet?
volvo242gt
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Board looks clean and caps aren't bulging, so I suspect it was recapped, but with electrolytics at some time.
3lectr1cPPC
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Post a photo of it, I'm pretty good at identifying original/replacement caps, as are many others here.
volvo242gt
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Will do this evening...
volvo242gt
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Been somewhat busy lately, so haven't had time to get a pic of the LCIII's guts.
Anyway, grabbed a Quantum LPS240S that might have a good logic board to resurrect the drive I currently have.
Anyway, grabbed a Quantum LPS240S that might have a good logic board to resurrect the drive I currently have.
volvo242gt
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Not the greatest photo - My iPhone's camera has been acting strangely over the past couple years.
With respect to the drive I mentioned above, yup, the board was good, so I'm back in business.
Those look like original caps to me. All LC logicboards need new caps as do the power supplies.
volvo242gt
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Heck, pretty much any Mac through at least the G4 series, if the caps are still electrolytics, and I don't have verification that they've been replaced, I'm likely to get said machine recapped. After all, there was that G4 Digital Audio that I owned a few years back. Started getting tempermental and losing its sound. That machine was only 11 years old when the caps started leaking.
3lectr1cPPC
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Were they leaking though? Or did they just fail?
volvo242gt
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The ones in the G4? Leaking.
CC_333
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volvo242gt
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Yeah, I know... I think you'll be ok for a while with the G3 that you got from me. That machine didn't seem to be in need of recapping last time I looked at it. Of the machines I own, the LCIII seems to be the only one that will need a recsp of its board. The IIci and C650 will need a recap of their power supplies, as will the IIgs. That machine will probably receive one of the ReActive Micro power supplies, though, along with some other goodies from them. In fact, on Saturday, I'm picking up an A2M6016, an A9M0107, and a GS-RAM Plus for it from Henry. Driving over to his place in Bremerton, WA. Later on, probably will add one of his replica SuperDrive controller cards, since the A9M0106 I have was updated to a FDHD mechanism. Maybe also a CFFA3000.
Tomorrow, another LPS240S comes from Joel (@PotatoFi). That'll go in place of the 160 that's in the IIci.
Dude.JediKnight
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Can’t hurt to check them all to make sure they aren’t already going bad.
I don’t think anyone wants to replace all the caps in all their machines all at once. The goal long term would be to have everything recapped and working properly.
volvo242gt
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Exactly.
3lectr1cPPC
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I'm not jumping the gun on any of my G4s yet, the current policy I've got is anything pre-1998 should be recapped "soon". Main things Apple that I've got to do are my PowerBook 1400c, and my PowerBook 150. Newer stuff has failed on my before though, I'm about 95% sure the analog board in my Blueberry G3 iMac needs new caps, and I've had to replace bulging capacitors on many a Pentium 4-era PC motherboard. What's good news is that it would appear so far that surface mount caps made around 1995 and onwards don't tend to leak as bad as the earlier ones do. There are some cases (like your G4) where they do, but most of the time they seem to just dry out and die in peace. They're definitely falling out of spec though.
volvo242gt
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If they look good, then you can probably wait. If they're getting leaky, then, it's time.
