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So I spent today benchmarking a bunch of video cards in my IIfx and a PowerComputing Power 100. Unfortunately that Radius card would be much better suited to a PowerPC mac than a 68k mac, but it's a fair bit worse than HPV in the 8100. Under Macbench 4, my PrecisionColor Pro 24xk gets a score of...

Did you clean the board, and I mean really clean the board after recapping? Cap goo gets under chips and causes weird issues until really cleaned.

For the SCSI 2 SD config did you set the vendor and model to the one in the SCSI2SD in a 68k Mac thread, including the spaces before/after? That’s required for the stock drive setup to recognize the scsi2sd.  A really easy way to get the drive setup off the iMac is to use sheep shaver with...

Generally as long as it's just green fuzz, you'll be able to clean it off and it'll just work(tm). There are some exceptions, like in a Mac IIcx the cap leakage likes to ruin the power-on circuitry and you'll never be able to turn the computer off again but that's a minor issue. More or less all...

Have you tried a different mouse in case the one you’re testing with decided to die?

As long as there's no batteries that've gone bang, should be plenty doable. Caps will need replace on the logic board for sure and probably the power supply. Thankfully it's not too hard, we're talking ~3 hours work for a first time repairer, providing you're familiar with a soldering iron.

Navy? Close enough! This one's a Novy card and that passthrough is almost certainly to allow you to hook a video card and/or other expansion into the back. To the best of my knowledge, the only card ever released that made use of it was the E-Machines Big Picture card but it's possible there's...

Good chance it’s a Euro DIN adapter rather than PDS. They use the same connector.

Newertech Clockometer would do it too.

The easiest way is with a bigger office printer that does PostScript. Most mid range Laserjets do (does it have 2 paper tray support? Probably does PS). Ive printed to my P4015x and my P3005 from OS8 with no bridge before, need to try older OSes some day.

I bet there's an SE/30 board in there. The video corruption + 8 megs ram + SE/30 identification + 500 meg hard drive would have me placing my money on it. The only other way to get an SE to 8 megs is with an '030 accelerator and Compact Virtual but that's not a very common thing to find. 

at $40 for the pair, even maxell bomb'd, I'd say you did alright. Best case, you can fix it. Worst case, you can swap the ROMs and SWIM into an 800k board and upgrade it to a Superdrive (providing those chips aren't too damaged). The keyboard alone for $40 wouldn't have been a terrible find, you...

That’s not for video but for AUi. That’d allow you to use thick net or thin net or fibre or whatever other medium you might be using in your network.

That's because the phosphor really is more of a blue than a true white. If you play with white balance in editing, setting for the Mac casing will make the screen blue, setting for the screen will make everything else very yellow. Easiest fix is to just do an edit of both and overlay the screen...

Yup, the solder mask is part of the PCB manufacturing process that keeps the copper under the mask safe. It looks like a very easy fix, (carefully) scrape a bit of solder mask off and You can probably use something like an component lead to bridge that tiny gap.

Either run a bridge wire from wherever the other end of the trace is to the capacitor leg, or scrape off a bit of the solder mask beside the pad and solder to that instead of the pad. You can get sticky replacement "pads" but you will need to scrape off a bit of solder mask and solder to the...

Soon(tm) I can get you a pin out for the Radius FPD. I’ve got an older one that has the pinout marked on the PCB insides. At least I assume it’s older one, the entire front chassis is cast metal!

SCSI2SD + Sticky Tape :)

Yeah, a straight through serial cable will work. Note you'll get ghosting without a shielded cable though. I picked up a 9 pin straight through cable meant for video on a KVM of sorts I've been meaning to try but haven't got around to it yet.

Hey, I'll take that Big Picture card. It'd be fun to try and make work on the GCC Hypercharger passthrough. Not a lot of information on the card so I bet it won't work on LCDs ,a good multisync CRT maybe.