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No battery corrosion on either spot. It's a shame the button cell is soldered in like that, I would be more inclined to swap it if it would at least have a cable and connector. Oh well. I'll get around to it sometime. I'll probably buy a replacement daughter card since there's a few on eBay...

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...

Absolutely not! Some modems will listen for a dial tone and will not operate until it is detected. Now, there are hayes commands to disable this behanvior, but it may not support that command functionality. Moreover, the full line voltage may be needed, proper ringing, etc.  A PBX can be had...

Yep! In fact, I can do one better than that. My city provides free dial-up internet access to anyone. So, I can choose between dialing internally for access, or dialing externally for access as well, as we still have our landline connection.  At which point it becomes rediculous. We get service...

Cool! It's not entirely a necessity for me, but I'm sure in the future it'll become useful.  But, for file transfers, wouldn't an external SCSI drive loaded with files be much better? A heck of a lot faster. No multiple access, but for that you can use an Appletalk network and a file share. 

Hmmm. Lots of research that needs to be done. I'll probably end up doing that much later.  For now, I'm going to test out this setup on my PBX system, and compare. I'll see how much that ISDN expansion costs, from what you've said it could enable some very cool stuff. 

I see what you're saying. The PBX that I've got can handle an ISDN expansion, so I'll keep my eyes open for one and also look into snagging an ISDN interface for my Cisco. It'll take some time for my budget, but if that ends up going well I'll post on the forums about it.  Quite frankly I'm...

Cisco does have ISDN and T1 interfaces, but keep in mind that when you start getting to digital connections, you start having problems in that the underlying infrastructure is a lot more complex than POTS. Those are both based on DS0 bundles, so while they're voice channels, I wouldn't know...

Just chiming in because I have this setup at home. Mind you I got quite lucky with the finds needed to get it running.  I use my Cisco 2821 router with a WIC-2AM installed for the ISP end of the connection. Those are both cheap and plentiful, and configuration is easy (if you've worked with...

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? 

I had considered it, but doesn't the mod increase the thermal load on the analog board? It is an extra selling point, though. I'll probably just do it anyway.

You know what? That was kinda fun! Not at all as difficult as I figured it would be. Just took my time and had some TNG on in the background. The glue was a little interesting to pull off, especially from those two caps glued down on their sides. But, as far as I can tell, it's all gone...

I was hoping for a map of the caps to the rear of the board. I've poked through that thread in the past. I suppose I'll just have to be careful and take it slowly. The board seems fairly robust, anyway. 

Finally got around to pulling out the analog board. Someone requested a picture? http://imgur.com/ypthvkP Otherwise, I've now got another issue- Does anyone have recommendations, or a "map" of which leads to desolder for the capacitors? 

Yup, a step up or two in voltage but no higher. Certainly with temp. I don't plan on keeping this one around, but I'd at least like to do a proper job.

Yup, my thoughts exactly. It might be my first recap, but certainly not my first soldering job. That's some left over flux... I really ought to do a post-recap cleaning. It can't hurt, and I can leave it out to dry for a week since the analog board will be out for a week or two.  I did look into...

Pictures of front and back, full resolution. You can zoom in quite a bit. Had to upload to imgur because the upload here wasn't liking me.  http://imgur.com/gallery/ZI5Ah

Will post pictures in a few hours. Washed with lightly warmed water and isopropyl. Scrubbed with a soft bristle toothbrush. That was done before the caps were removed, so I made sure to clean under the caps after I pulled them off.