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Officially the IIfx is not supported under RocketWare. Note I have not tried to force it to run RocketWare with my Rocket 33mhz. It's supposedly the same issue with the underlying system I/O bus architecture that blocks RocketWare from running on a Q900/950 and Q700. Both Quadras are a lot like...

OWC finally shipped out the RAM. Turns out NewerTech no longer supplies them with 3.6v 1/2 AA PRAM batteries so they had to rebuild my order without the battery. I went ahead and ordered some PRAM batteries off of ebay, the blue PxCell ones. I've had good luck with these in the past. The Q950...

I got all exited thinking this would be on the App Store, but I brought myself back to reality. No emulators allowed on the App Store. :/ It would be fun just to see peoples reaction if you showed them the iPad running System 7. Try and pass it off as the newest iOS.

PCB looks good to me. My IIcx had the same caps. The values are printed on a yellow band around the side of the cap.

Perhaps not relevant to this discussion, but it would be cool to see a new 10/100 Nubus card enter production. The Asante card is rare and fairly expensive. Since Nubus is standardized and used on tons of Macs it may be worth the effort?

You will need to replace the capacitors on the logic board. If cleaning the whole board with alcohol is required the caps have leaked. They will soon, if not already, be out of specification. The Color Classic is very easy to recap.

I order my parts from Digikey. This is the series of caps I was speaking of: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/n/nichicon/aluminum-conductive-polymer-capacitors

IIci is a rather popular machine so it may be worth recapping if the system is complete. It's not a hard board to recap.

Has the motherboard been recaped?  A problem I ran into on my CC is the little metal shielding feet on the underside of the logic board getting dislodged and causing a short. I had one of those feet cause SCSI to not work until I placed it in the right position. Check the position of the metal...

So I haven't got a chance to benchmark the SCSI2SD 5.1/Q950 SCSI Bus yet in anything aside from Norton Utilities. It scored in the high 80's if I remember right, above most lower end 030 Macs but well below the Quadras, so the SCSI2SD is holding it back. Possibly due to crippled random write...

When recapping I only use high quality Japanese or American caps, no substitute. Nichicon Polymers are nice matches for the OEM SMD electrolytic caps. Looks OEM, but won't leak. Costs a bit more, but your Mac will be truly happy.

If you lack the supplies to do the job, I have a Hakko soldering station. I could take on a recap job if your willing to "outsource" the work. Already recapped my Color Classic with good success: Note the CC/CCII aren't hard logic boards to work on. There is a lot of empty space on the PCB...

Did you recap the logic board yet? My bet is the cleaning with water ruined what was left of the electrolyte in the caps. No functioning caps, no boot.

Today I worked quite a bit on the Q950. Found my spare tray load AppleCD 300, as well as a 4 pin square to 4 pin molex cable out of a long dead 7100 desktop. Reinstalled System 7.1.1 Pro and installed System 7.6 on a 2nd partition. It took a very long time to get my Stage II Rocket working in...

The issue probably was a PCB design error that made it to the final production run. Could have been something completely show stopping, i.e dead on arrival logic boards, or it could be a stability fix of some type that was incorporated in later revisions. Bodge wire jobs make a lot more sense...

And here I thought the 81mb of RAM in my IIfx was huge. 128mb! That must have cost an absolute fortune back in the day to obtain. Now you need some special Nubus boards to put in that IIfx. :smiley: If I were you, I would take both Q700's if possible. Even a beat up one fetches a nice amount...

I have a VideoVision Studio board, but it's in my Radius 81/110. The card is better paired with a fast PowerPC chip, at least from my tests. I've been using the VideoVision Studio to archive family mini VHS tapes to digital. Only roadblock is the small 2gb HDD and slow 10baseT lan of the 81/110.

7.5.3 is a temporary launchpad OS. It's the only floppy set I have that has the system enabler for the 950 built in. Once I get network access rolling I will make valid 7.1.1 Pro disks for the machine. My backup images of my 7.1.1 Pro disk set are on my G4.

Making some progress! I configured the SCSI2SD using my Windows box, set it up as a " Seagate" "          ST225N" to fool the Apple HD SC setup. 16gb Class 6 SD card from SanDisk is the media of choice for this project. Right now I am initializing the disk using the System 7.5.3 Disk Tools...

I agree with you about the Rocket if it’s an original Stage I 25 or 33mhz card. Those are much better used as system accelerators in older 030 Macs. Reason I think the StageII is a better fit in a fast Mac is because it cannot serve as an overall system accelerator. A slow base system paired...