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I posted some time ago about my Vulcan I’ve been fighting with. Posting again in hopes to find some more advice as I have made some progress. The problem before was a result of not paying attention to cap impedance values. I bought replacements that matched as closely as possible to the...

I’m back with another SE/30 repair. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to resurrect this one, as I failed and had some outside help to fix up the last one that had some nasty cap goo trace damage. This one’s a battery bombed unit, but it was fairly light. It seems it was luckily stored on its face or...

Finally had an opportunity to get to recapping my Vulcan. C9 had failed and spilled its guts a little so after a visual inspection I opted not to even try powering it on unrestored until I had replaced the caps. After replacing, I popped it into my IIgs with the original hard drive installed...

Hi folks, To avoid burying the lede, this is yet another SE/30 simasimac repair post. I've got one board that is just not cooperating with me, though at least I've narrowed down some areas I think are most suspect. Current condition is a boot to jailbars, no sounds. RAM and ROM are known...

In the continuing saga of the 180c I'm working on, I dove right in to tackling a memory expansion modification to get it up to that sweet 14MB limit. The card is a 4MB expansion card but has all the pads for 10MB. I wasn't able to source exact replacement chips, instead I found them in a...

My lovely Powerbook 3400c has been behaving a bit strangely since I swapped out the hard drive for a CF to IDE adapter. I still have the original hard drive so can swap it in as needed for additional testing, but it's on its last legs. I've installed 8.1 via emulator, and then dd'ed it to the...

Looking for some advice with a problematic 180c I'm working on. I had no issues cleaning up the display caps, so that work is all done. The hard drive was spotty and wouldn't reliably boot (at all, but the seller had it boot once), so I swapped in a BlueSCSI. I was having issues with that...

Bought a selection of hard drives, and I noticed on the bottom of one of the drives (ST51080N, as per the title) has some SMD caps that had slid off their pads. Upon further inspection, I found a total of three other pads with components missing.  I was only able to find one missing component...

Having some trouble with a new HDD I purchased for my SE/30. The disk appears to be perfectly OK, disk first aid says it's fine, Lido 7 can scan and mount it, and I've installed 7.3.5 on to it. It won't boot from it, so I assumed I needed to initialize it with Setup 7.5.3 Patched, but when the...

Seems all links I could find online are dead. I've just installed a heap of RAM in my SE/30, I'd really like to have some email running on there without a networked helper system.  For that matter, is Baton Mail the only client for 68k that has SSL and SMTP AUTH compatibility? 

Hi, Looking to get some additional input on repairing a color (colour...) classic Macintosh.  Here's the tests and procedures, in order, that I have done so far: Pulled motherboard to check power supply functionality- OK Washed motherboard and reinserted for a basic check- FAIL Removed rear...

Looking to get some simple instructions on setting up a serial terminal connection between my PC and my SE/30. I can't seem to get it to work at the moment, so I'm sure there's either something I'm overlooking, or I've got some faulty cables.  I've got a mini DIN 8 to DB9 connector, hooked that...

Has anyone replaced all of the ram chips onboard an older style //c mainboard?  I'm going to have to replace at least one chip, and I figured I'd do 'em all at once and solder on sockets to facilitate swapping in the future.  First, is it wise to replace them all, even if most are functional? ...

I am at my wits end here, trying to get an internet connection setup and running on my SE/30.  I've browsed all over the web for a long while now trying every which way to get an internet connection running, but each page seems to omit information that I guess they figured was common knowledge...

I'm really hoping this isn't a recap issue (although it probably is) I had my Macintosh portable working about 4 weeks ago. I checked it once again today, and found that she just won't turn on.  Error code is as follows- 03001300 00001FFA Which, it seems, corresponds to an "interrupt level 4"...