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I've always liked the look of the Quadra 700 and wanted one for years. One came up on ebay last week within Canada and was already hit with a stack of offers and over 10 watchers, but the buy it now price was still far less than any other I've seen so I went nuts and bought it. Had the...

Yeah I've got two power supplies and I opened one of them without seeing any OBVIOUS problems... The ROM and L2 chips in there now are what was in there when the system used to work. I did get another ROM on ebay and remove the L2 chip but nothing changed. Symptoms unfortunately point to broken...

I had looked under the heatsink before and the CPU did not look like it was cracked, and after my recap I also cleaned the CPU to add more heatsink compound. I've been super careful with the heatsink but I suppose something may still have broken at some point. I have a spare board with the exact...

Argh, recapped the board and nothing has changed. Hoping the CPU isn't broken... 

I don't mind the recapping. I don't do a pro job because I only care about functionality over how clean the job is, so it isn't overly difficult for me to get it done. I'm just super lazy with getting projects going so I have yet to recap the 6100.

I had all of those exact items when I bought my IIsi (my first computer) in the early 90s. Damn was that an exciting day... I still own the IIsi but no matching CRT.

Yeah I tried a new battery from a small stash I ordered last year and didn't make any change. Also tried the double tap method. I haven't gotten around to the recapping yet but I'll try that first and hopefully it solves my problem. 

Yeah one sign I had on a machine prior to recapping was it would power itself on as soon as power was applied. It worked properly after the recapping. This was just the board caps too. My PSU still seems ok.

If you're talking about using a Mac->VGA adapter on it, you need a monitor that supports "sync on green." Not all do and I ran into this exact problem with mine.

8.1 introduced HFS+ which doesn't have the 2GB limitation if I'm not mistaken. Only downside would be nothing below 8.1 can read it.

If you or anyone still needs the AE Cache driver, I've archived the copy that came on a IIsi I recently bought: http://68k.preterhuman.net/AE_Cache_v2.0.sit

Yeah I've got two ROM cards and one cache card, already tried running it without the cache card. I'll be trying the board recap first and see what happens.

OK well I'm feeling a little better about my situation then. I don't mind doing the recapping so long as it may help fix my problem and I'm not just wasting time on a dead board. I'll order up the caps I need for the job and try this within the next couple of months I guess.

This one has stumped me. It has the symptoms of a broken CPU but I've got two boards and they both don't LOOK broken. I've also got two power supplies, two ROM SIMMS, multiple RAM sticks. None of these parts mixed together produces a working 6100... When power is applied the power light comes...

Yeah I'm hoping to get around to doing that sometime over the winter.

I picked up a Duo 210 a little while back with a problem where random keystrokes will not register on the computer. I haven't pulled the thing apart yet but wondering if anyone has ideas for something specific I should be looking for.

The one I used looks exactly like https://www.ebay.ca/itm/SATA-TO-PATA-IDE-Converter-Adapter-Plug-Play-7-15-Pin-3-5-2-5-SATA-HDD-DVD-GA/273368479057 and the SSD is some generic one I pulled from an old IBM server.

I'm running a generic PATA to SATA adapter from an ebay china seller and a 128GB SSD in my 6320 and it showed up no problem under MacOS 9. Not sure if these things even have jumpers to change settings. Just worked out of the box.

I still have the SCSI Zip I bought from the local Mac shop back in like the late 90s to use with my IIsi. A little beat up but surprisingly still works without any issues.

Yeah that seems to be the only missing piece. I'll PM you.