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If you’re planning in expanding your collection, imho a cheap CD/DVD burner is a great investment and will save you a lot of money in the long run vs. sourcing original disks.

Usually? Have you seen some of the eBay sales lately? Most of them are far beyond saving via a simple recap. Edit: I didn’t realize you were not in the US. Long story short, it’s been a while I’ve seen a IIfx listing that wasn’t just a pile of rust. Good condition machines are becoming...

Random freezes while idle could indicate a failing PSU. But you have the right idea to start with a fresh install and see what happens.

50V 0.1uF. 0805 package fits well P. S. Lower voltage ones will probably work too, I just didn't see a reason since 50v come in the right size and are dirt cheap. I built 2 sets of 128MB with those and they all work well.

Are you sure the little metal springs on the underside of the logic board are all contacting the metal RF shielding? You can pull them slightly more open to ensure they are making solid contact. Also, make sure there's no corrosion or other obstructions on the RF shield in the contact areas.

This sounds great! I have a few Amigas with (your???) accelerators, including the ACA500, ACA1234 (with an FPU upgrade), as well as the AGA MK3. As the previous poster, I'm also curious how this will work across different models. AFAIK, there's a lot of proprietary trickery that was...

Imho, the 030 accelerators with on-board RAM are the ultimate SE upgrade, some far exceeding SE/30 speeds and quadrupling your RAM to 16MB. Unfortunately they are not easy to find these days, and usually priced accordingly. The only issue I’ve experienced with these is some of them can be...

I’ve used MacPack in the past the same exact way you are attempting, and it worked just fine. Just downloaded and renamed it to vhd (with the appropriate SCSI id) and it just worked. It’s possible that your machine is booting off the MacPack 6.0.8, not your original image, and maybe there’s...

That is possible, and perhaps attributing to my results at least with the Astec since I only have one of those. But I do have 3 of each of the old and new Sonys (6 total Sony PSUs) and the difference between 699-0389 and 699-0393 is huge in my experience. I’m pretty sure these were redesigned...

I have done side by side comparisons, and I find that the original Sony CR45S (699-0389) is by far the loudest, with the Astec being slightly quieter, and the newer Sony CR45S (699-0393), which was only included with the IIfx, is much much quieter than the other two. Interestingly, I’m pretty...

I remember having similar issues a while back. I think I ended up finding drivers that worked after trying multiple variations. I would try searching for ATI 9200 Mac drivers “DVI-I”. I believe the DVI-I version of the drivers was different somehow and it was the only version that worked for...

I don’t have a spare DC board, unfortunately. The machine works fine but then again coil whine generally doesn’t indicate any underlying problem. I was just curious if anybody had the same experience. The insulator around the inductor is pretty suspect. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t notice...

Getting some annoying coil whine from a freshly recapped 3400c. I believe it's coming from a 10µH inductor on the main board under the DC power board. I'm thinking this is a known design flaw? Is that the reason for the weird foam insulator around it? Can anybody confirm?

Thanks. I kind of suspected that might be the case. The only extension I’ve ever seen is 3.0.

I’ll definitely give this a shot. Although I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Sound Manager 2.0 extension. Anybody know which OS would have that?