Recent content by falen6

id have a look at the chips related , that are close to the caps that leaked ...... look at them all very carefully......their pins and pads .... look for any discoloration .......... reflow them all

Thanks for that Byrd ..... thats all i need to know - cheers Will put back up in the attic ....... to keep it safe !!! ........ the more I look at it the more I see it sprayed black and running as a ......... giant Vectrex !!!!

you could give the board a rub down with vinegar , lots of it ,work it around with a tooth brush and just leave if sit on the board wait a while and see if you can see any tiny bubbles anywhere - that would be a fast tell tale sign

Thanks for that Byrd Already was up there looking for that cable , no luck so far will pop the rear cover and have a look if the lciii supports portrait display then what does the radius card do- was hoping it was some kind of acelerator card , but with drivers installed the graphics...

i have just recently got back to playing with my macs last month got a CC , the other day i took down an LCIII on both machines i have found problems with rot/corrosion from vias and chip legs/pad connection. Im starting to think about long term corrosion , how we clean the boards , are we...

Did it again , took something down from the attic This time it is an LC iii - when i opened it there is a radius pivot color display card inside Cant remember when i got the machine , but there is also a portrait display up there so took that down as well Recapped the LC and its working great...

heres doom running on a 128K spectrum !!! - with only 128K of ram i think its an amazing feat

i recently started a thread on here about my CC problems working board ......... covered in electrolite ........ washed it , recapped it , stopped working ended up get it to boot to a grey screen with chime , no mouse , but booting turns out it seems to be rotted vias ........... i reflow a...

Hi folks Been working at it on and off for a while and im 99% sure my problem is rotten vias around the vicinity of the caps as people have pointed out machine still not working I tool off U7 and metered the pads back to the vias and they all looked ok - but i didnt check continuty to the...

I took it off , cleaned the area with iso , checked the continuity between all the vias under the chip to their local pads ........ all seems fine just took off U5 and did the same , all seems fine ......... put it all back and still grey screen the video memory is seperate from the onboard...

went through everything in this thread , but it didnt help me might help someone else though https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/color-classic-no-power-issue-debunked.1285/#post-24248

aparently this is an unsolved problem for CC's reading this thread https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/color-classic-motherboard-woes.2580/ same problem , except im getting a chime and the machine is booting ......... but screen is just grey , no mouse has ANYBODY !!!!! had this problem...

Got this color classic that i recapped and its giving problems ( previous posts) looking at upgrades. this guy put an Imac G3 logic board into a CC i have a 333mhz bondi blue imac with a damaged case seriously considering the mod does anyone know if this is possible - the guy talks...

still have the problem - hasnt given a display for last few hours - pram reset not making any difference now ive checked all the caps with other new caps , and soldering is clean and accurate the amount of cap goo that was on this board when i got it was unreal i used liquid hand soap ...

got a display with pram reset , by pressing command , option , P,R and power at the same time ........ but with artifacts on the display as the mouse moves i dont have a battery installed on logic board as i dont have a new one.......... machine powers with no battery installed - have read...