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Hi, in my case I was sure the Carrera was working before, so I was able to rule this option out from the beginning. I know it sounds silly but... did you try with a totally fresh install of 7.1 as I wrote, literally zapping the disk and starting from srcratch?

IDK if this older thread about me dealing with a similar issue may help you somehow: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/carrera-se30-control-and-bolle-carrera040-in-the-mac-se-30.46741/

@evanboonie glad I could be useful. Thanks for your offer, being on the other side of the pond :D I'd rather find someone closer; I have a very skilled repairer I use sometimes, and he did repair traces for me on some logic boards already... so I guess he's the man, I just need to find time...

Yes, it's that card, I got it in January for 450 bucks, which is not the crazy amount of money you said they were asking, but still a lot of money considering the condition it is in. That's how you learn lessons about buying vintage stuff online...

@evanboonie I got my PCMCIA model out and took some photos, it seems it also has cache installed already, if I understand your cache mod correctly; the jumpers are set to host a 486 DX2-50 which is the processor I got with the card. The chip at U94 (with a dissipator below it that I removed to...

thanks @evanboonie for all your work. The cache mod looks really promising and interesting, and the component list you shared is less than 20€ from digikey, so definitely worth a shot. I am totally scared by the soldering work, so I should probably ask for some help by some skilled friend, but I...

@warmech is the TashTwenty Mega gone further? I have a stack of external SCSI HDs (apple, rodime etc) which would love to get one... or should I put some other kind of card in there and fix them that way? I loved your design the most...

I will do my best to take these pics, but as @jeremywork just wrote, I think it will take a bit to find the time.

Great! thanks @zefrenchtoon !

Previously I had formatted the card with the standard version of Drive Setup, but as I wrote, I got no boot - I didn't know there was a hacked version of this one too, I only knew about the hack for the previous SCSI version (the "HD SC Setup" hacked to work with SCSI2SD etc). Could you point me...

Regarding the issues booting from CF2IDE cards: low level format of the CF card and updated drivers with FWB Toolkit made the trick, and now the 630 boots from the CF card with no problem!

whoops sorry my bad... I should have checked the thread before :(

Not directly related but can you check the card’s firmware number? There is a specific thread looking for a dump of v. 1.1.2 rom…

Might be useful to others: I managed to properly setup the Apple Ethernet CS twisted pair card ( = rj45 ethernet for the comm slot of the Performa 630) and surf the web with Nescape 2.01. How? I switched to MacOS 7.6.1 and manually moved the Apple Ethernet CS extension (from the Apple Talk...

After some contact and slot cleaning, the card now shows up in TattleTech: (interesting board name BTW... EtherNet hack?!?) now I just need to figure out how to install drivers. NSI 1.4.5 offers to install Ethernet Comm Slot Card drivers, but then the installer says it cannot replace the...

More questions: is there a modern battery model model that we can use in the Performa 630, or should I connect a button battery to the logic board pins? In this case, any idea of the + and - pins position?

Thanks for the advices. I tried the IDE2SD on a beige G3 (IIRC) and it worked flawlessly, being only a bit slow when booting (and it was a different model from Aliexpress, while the one I am trying, comes from Amazon). I will try the CF2IDE and let you know!

Hi guys, I am tinkering with a 630 DOS compatible... I added an ethernet card in the comm slot, but it doesn't seem to be recognized... do you have any experience with it? Also, I am trying to replace the IDE HD with a IDE2SD card, but it shows up on the Drive Setup utility only from time to...

Yes it's a torn connector! Thanks to the pics on FB I finally got it :D I also have another card revision with a daughter card for RAM, but I never managed to make it work... so at least 3 different models are out there. Now how to make it work: connected video and disks seems to be needed in...