Recent content by Mr_Anomalya

It was capacitor C15. It traumatized me, but I beat it into submission in the end. Btw I did use flux, and it worked like a charm with the through hole capacitors on the analog board. You couldn't even tell which birdseed on the bottom was done by me and which by Malaysian factory workers in...

I gave it a good clean again and resoldered C15 to the traces, and turned it on without expectations... AND IT ACTUALLY CHIMED! I'm so happy rn. Also I would hereby like to formally nominate my work as the world's ugliest sound troubleshooting job that worked. While my soldering alone lacks...

Thanks. The backside to me seems pristine. On the front, I see three traces that are sus, but all of them run between the modem or the printer driver chips and their outputs. That's something I can live without, assuming the BlueSCSI Pico-W works. What I found with a multimeter is that while...

Hi Everyone, I recently began a hobby project of resurrecting a Classic II that I bought at my elementary school's yard sale 20 years ago (for the equivalent of about 2 dollars). It was working fine for a few years, but it hasn't been able to boot for a good 15 years. I have close to zero...