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Thanks - I have ordered the capacitors. I hope I can manage to do it. I'm a novice at soldering. Question - if you know - those tiny ceramic capacitors - I don't see anywhere that they have a positive and negative - are they not polar?

Thanks - I was able to start it up without the battery! However, after a minute or two of smeary display, it went a white/blank color. Is that capacitors? Is that a easy or hard to fix? Which capacitors should I look at? OK I found a video! I hope it's easy.

I have a working 7600 and an extra SCSI drive. If I disconnect the existing 7600 HD and replace it with a non-Apple SCSI spare, will the 7600 prompt me for a system disk? Can I use a 6.0.8 system disk to boot it up, set up the HD then take the HD and put it into an SE/30? Thanks.

I have a PowerBook 160 that did work a few years ago, but when I plug it in and press power, it does nothing at all. 3 years ago, it worked flawlessly. 1 year ago, I could hear it power up, but the screen stayed dark. Now it doesn't do anything. I've checked the power supply, and it provides...

I'll try that - I didn't know that the SE/30 DSHD drive was backward compatible with the DSDD SE until today! 

There's an SE with unknown issues on eBay that I can get for $60 and pick up locally. Has 2 floppy drives. No keyboard, no mouse. I'm reluctant to add more Macs to my limited living space.

Interesting. I wonder if I just popped out the IWM chip and re-inserted it if it would fix the problem. Is there a way to continuity test the chip? or would it matter... How do I identify the SWIM chip? I've only read about it.. Or I could buy a HD to SD converter and cut the floppy drive out...

I hadn't anticipated the 800k drives being a big problem when I bought the SE. I think the drive went bad, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it other than re-lubing it - which I've done. And to test it, I need to buy another 800k SE - I can't even test it in the SE/30.  I like the SE because...

That's how I found the 800k disks - an old box of Turbotax with 4 disks inside. I knew they couldn't be HD.

I think I'm beginning to see how some of you guys end up with 20 Macs! I'll be picking up another SE/30 next week, but that's not going to help me - I need an 800k drive or another, functioning SE. I'm not in deep enough to buy a floppy emulator (yet).

I have an SE/30 that also won't boot and has disk drive problems, but I'm trying to focus on the SE first. So I don't have other drives to compare it to. This SE was reading disks a month ago, and after a few weeks of not doing anything with it, suddenly does this - rejecting all disks.

I opened up the gear mechanism, and yes, it makes a difference where the pin is - more importantly, it matters if the platter is in the down position or the up position. Anyway, I put it back together and checked it, and now I get the same issue - ejecting without even a handshake. I also tried...

I copied the disk images from the 7600 (thought it was a 7100) over to my PC and opened them in vMac with no trouble. So at least they are good images. I was able to boot disk 1 using Mini vMac, so they look like good images. I copied the system files from the image to the floppy. It still...

I'll try that first thing when I get home tonight - thanks for the encouragement!  [ :) ] I do have Mini vMac running on a PC - I have a 1GB virtual drive running 6.0.8. I'll need to figure out how to mount the floppy image.  I downloaded the 4 floppy images from MacFixer. Can I boot up the...

I tried dragging the System Folder off the back. It didn't make a difference. It ejects the disk so fast that it makes me believe that it doesn't even attempt to read it first. It's like there's a physical rejection.

Thanks for the answers - that helps a lot. The damaged disk went into the SE/30 and got stuck - I tried to force it out but failed - I didn't pull that hard, and I honestly have never seen a floppy damaged that way. I used the Create Disk function in Disk Copy v6.3.3 for one try. I used 4.2...

I thought I'd start a new thread focused solely on this topic. The Macintosh SE that I bought a month ago came with a floppy disk labeled "Your Apple Tour of the Macintosh SE". When I tested it the, the disk was read, and I worked through the intro program. So I know it worked not long ago...

Not mine, unless someone broke it off - which is possible. I considered cutting off the clip on the SE/30.

Regarding my original post - I was following the directions for an SE, thinking that disassembling an SE/30 is the same. It's not. The SE/30 has a clip on the power harness; the SE doesn't. For the SE/30, I found it easier to unclip the power harness from the power supply board rather than the...

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