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Two steps forward, one backward! My axial replacement caps arrived yesterday, so today I set about replacing them on the logic board. Sadly, the ground lead of the 470uFx16V refuses to budge and its pin stuck in the hole. I tried the following to get it free: applied heat (pencil tip, 420...

I'm amenable to this, given the very high price of the SCSI<->SATA adaptor. Two quesitons though: 1) Which Acard adaptor do you mean? The ones I've seen are also $200 plus (http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/). 2) I haven't seen too many IDE SSD drives around - got any specifics...

Thanks for the advice. I'm waiting on a couple of options for Apple SCSI's in the realm of 500MB to 1.2GB on ebay at the moment, or a local mac guy will hopefully come through with a good condition apple 50-pin. At the other end of the spectrum, if I do go all out, I'll probably go for a SCSI...

Cancel that last bunch of questions. I see from this thread (viewtopic.php?p=163030) that SCA 80-pin non-terminated SCSI drives are potentially problematic. There is a SCA-SCSI 50-pin adaptor that is a few dollars more pricey, but which has termination built-in...

Curse my ignorance - but what would Doug's ROM enable me to do? I've browsed the thread (not all 40 pages, admittedly) - would I swap out my SE/30's ROM board for one of Doug's, which would provide an 8MB bootable 'disc', onto which I could install a base OS? There are a bunch of cheap SCSI...

Keyboard is fixed... I ended out lifting the lid of each of the ALPS switches which were dodgy. A gentle adjustment of the nickle plates has them working as good as new. .... and now the internal hard drive has died. It's been noisy since I pulled it from storage, with all manner of whirs and...

I've just joined the community, and am pleased to announce a successful resuscitation of a sound-less SE/30. Out family's first computer, when I was a kid, was a 512Ke back in the 1980s. We moved up to an SE with a 20GB HD and felt we'd hit the big time. Over the years, I used Macs on and off...