Recent content by Tonebender

Alright, alright. But it seems like there's a slim chance that the motherboard is gonna work at all. And if it's not, I'm not gonna bother to find a store that sells the correct battery and waste my money on it. In that case I'm just gonna toss the Maxell in the recycling bin and be done with...

I'll check the voltage on the battery again, but I seem to recall it's okay. (Yes, I know it should be replaced anyways.) I'm not sure exactly how good the chime is supposed to sound, so it's difficult to judge, but I haven't noticed anything odd with it. It's not off key, to my ears, but sound...

Okay, here's a whole bunch of large pics: It's the first time I recap a board, although it's far from the first time I solder things, so it's not the neatest job ever. I know C6 and C9 look suspicious, but they all check okay with the multimeter. While many of the caps don't sit very...

Thanks for the ideas! Yes, I get the chimes. With RAM (and ROM) simms mounted, I get the normal single bong. Without RAM (but ROM still mounted), I get what I believe is the slow death chime -- it's a succession of notes which sounds like a major chord arpeggio.

Alright, so now I've recapped my SE/30 logic board with tantalum caps, but when I turn the computer on, all I see is this: I tried this SE/30 logic board in my SE FDHD, which gives the same results, while my SE logic board works in the SE/30 box, which indicates that the error is with the...

No problem. I'm not anywhere near installing system 8 yet, and honestly I probably never will. But it's nice to know I have the option -- I didn't know system 8 would work at all on an SE/30. For now I'm still at recapping the logic board, and when I finally get the thing to boot and run system...

Good ideas everyone! Zip drive is definitely an option, which I hadn't thought about at all, but a little clunky I guess. Investing in a SCSI2SD card looks like the smoothest option in the long run; I just need to lay low on the spendings right now. The Appletalk connection idea is cool! I...

I'm currently repairing an SE/30 and an SE FDHD, and I'm considering different ways of improving their data storage capabilities. Especially on the SE FDHD since it lacks a harddrive. I'm also short on money, and the CF memory card solution seems to be fairly expensive with the SCSI-to-IDE...

Thanks for the replies people! This subject was more diverse than I expected. CelGen -- you wouldn't sell one tablet + pen to me? ;)

Thanks for the tip! Now I just discovered that the other floppy drive in the same SE is also having some kind of issues. It can read mac-formatted disks no problem, but when I try to format them, they always fail at the verification phase. Anyone knows anything about that?

Hm, maybe you're right, but what makes me think it's not a lubrication issue is the fact that the drive behaves the exact same every time I test it. This includes movements and number of buzzing sounds, etc. And it doesn't appear to have any troubles with the moving parts. But who knows. There...

I checked the voltages on the same locations in my working SE, and the voltages there are the same, for example -9.3 volts where you say it should be -12, and 5.4 where it should be 5.0. But I don't know, it may be sweating a bit...

Thanks for the tips! Yesterday, I took the device apart, reading the 68kmla wiki floppy lubrication tutorial. I removed dust and tried to make sure the moving parts are moving. I didn't find any parts that needed obvious lubrication, everything seems to move smoothly. The heads seem well...

I have a Mac SE FDHD where the second floppy drive is behaving bad. The eject mechanism works fine, but when I insert a working diskette, it makes the normal disk read sounds a very few times (and in the meantime the mouse pointer gets kinda stuck, as if the computer is working hard). It then...

Okay ... So recapping the PSU, do you mean recapping the analog board or replacing caps in the actual PSU unit?