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That would be amazing, I don’t remember where I put my bombed one but I’m definitely interested in a IIfx board. Tell me if I could help. As always I amazed by the work done by the community in the last years, and you did a fantastic job with this IIcx. Thanks!

If you dig into service documentation you'll discover Apple actually replaced them, there was a kit for this purpose. I had one and I'll propably replace it because some blades were broken, and sadly it doesn't work properly despite some repairs.

I should receive a board from Robin soon. I didn't start working on getting components yet. I need to check what is salvageable from my board before.

Some inter-layer traces are heavly corroded nead the battery, PDS slot is rusty on the bottom of the board, I don't think it is "absolutly" beyond repair, but it's not worth it, for exemple half of the battery goo just won't go. And also may IC are contamined by heavy corrosion. Not a surprise...

Yeah I was a bit dramatical, it's not a bad deal at all. Even the 8 1MB memory sticks are worth it. I decided to move was can be salvage to a new PCB, because, despite the board not heavily damaged, it will took more time to fix with risk of internal layers been corroded... Plus Bolle's work is...

I'll be interested but I'm in the EU. Any europeans for a small batch?

And here is a day like any others, you find yourself stuck in traffic jam just to do few kilometers to get a SE/30 for 20€. What could go wrong? Oh you know exactly what could go wrong. Burned screen, dead hard drive, missing floppy drive, external damage… And two things you know will happen...

Got absolutely not problem with that. Just that I knew from the kid that the computer was working (actually both have G3 and G3 MDD parts), he gutted parts throwing everything in a big plastic bag. (ESD and scratches here you are) I just think there’s better ways to do it. Buying an empty case...

Sadly no, just a kid who wanted to put a pc in the B&W case 😢 As for the low voltage of the battery I had my suspicions, so I did a lot of testing and cuda resets. PRAM seems fine, passed multiple MTP runs without any trouble. But MTP is not good as AHT I suppose and no AHT is available for...

No battery. But I left it unplugged for about a whole day. I became suddenly easier to boot, still forcing it as the power button won’t do a thing, but it exactly booted every second try, I did few boots, never had an exception. Super strange. ESD shock is totally a possibility. What is...

Hi! This is an other episode from "BigBen tries to make garbage working again". Years ago, I bought a bunch of PowerMac spare parts. I was interrested by a PSU to replace a dead one in a PowerMac G4. Within the spare parts was a B&W G3 motherboard. Guess what I tried to boot it up. Starting by...

I’ll ask my father who bought it back in the day. I assumed it was the official thing but I rediscovered it was an epson few days ago. I assume it was bundled as a ZIP drive for Mac because IIRC it was shipped with a bunch of Mac ZIP disk. Had been bought around 1994/1996 I’d say.

From what I read and observed, Zip disks have pre-recorded alignment tracks (4 iirc), those are use to align the heads while reading or writing a disk. The zip drive can’t handle alignment without it If a disk happened to have those tracks damaged it can make the drive do a « click of death »...

This is a story of an old Lombard 400MHz in a pretty bad shape, with tue infamous power led symptom and no boot. I decided to give a try today and reflowed the CU and here it is! A working Lombard! Unfortunately I have a second one pretty damaged too, and that one didn’t came back from the...

Thanks for share all this information. My SE is in the store since I discovered the Prodigy was not compatible with Super Drive. I will pull and get more information about my board. Also my board doesn’t boot on cold boot, it sad mac and I need to reset it… Is your Mac SE equipped with super...

Sounds like a bad solder somewhere. By manipulating the board you may have trigger a problem that was just going to happen anyway. By replacing the caps, you may need to calibrate the display, I wonder if there is a service manual for this screen but they usually have instructions. From what I...

Replacing the original thermal pad, with a new thick one (because it’s the only thing I had) I made it stable with a fan blowing on the heatsink. The ceramic package is our enemy here, but it seems 166MHz also existed with this packaging. So I’m tempted to try the 2.5 multiplier. Could I push...

Freeze and reboots 😔

None I’m aware of. The card should support any P54C socket 5 CPU. Yes but as mentioned by Byrd, it requires the original CPU to be removed, that’s a 298 through hole pins monster to get out of the card with damages. I’m tempted to do so, but I don’t want to ruin the card and I need did...

Hello, This is a work in progress thing, since it’s not stable. The Pentium on the compatibility pc card is a P54C socket 5 processor. It runs on a 66MHz bus. The Pentium has two inputs pins allowing the internal clock multiplier to be configured. Those pin are BF0 and BF1. Both are pulled...