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About the gunk on the board, I can't emphasize how much I agree about its importance. I got all of the visible corrosive stuff off after I removed the old caps about a year ago, but there was still grime hiding under ICs and such. The board always needs a good wash and dry with something...

If you haven't already, I would suggest using a continuity tester to check that each cap is working. I'm not an expert at this, but I can testify that multimeters have saved me a number of times. Are these caps all electrolytic, or did you use solid ones for the surface-mounted replacements?

That's spectacular! I've always wanted a closer look at the old portables with the compact Mac logic boards inside.

I'm still looking for the culprit, although my CRT is pretty burnt up as it is. The good news is that I put a jump wire on my SE/30 logic board and got it to work correctly again! My current soldering iron is big enough that it risks bumping into other stuff, so I will get a smaller one and...

I've checked out the connector for the yoke again, but nothing I've reflowed has fixed anything yet. I'm trying to avoid haphazardly heating solder joints, at risk of breaking something. It seems like a gentle press on that area of the board (Near L1 and the yoke connector) stops the screen from...

Yeah, I would think so. I don't want over 1000 volts surging through me.

Unfortunately, I think I tried reflowing that one once already. I'll look at it again.

Since I bought it a few years ago, the analog board on my Macintosh SE SuperDrive has suffered an odd problem, where the picture often changes scale/brightness. It happens occasionally when the machine is running normally. The picture becomes brighter, slightly wider, and about 1/3 of the screen...

For the time being, I put my verified good 400MB HDD from my SE in it, since that has all the files from when I had the 030 board installed. Everything works great; the noisy/bad HDD was indeed Quantum.

You're probably correct, it sometimes continues to spin, but it's about a 50/50 chance. Will probably put a SCSI2SD in it, or the hard drive from my SE since my SE/30 logic board is now toast.

It's not possible to do this without first inserting the floppy, because there's no system/extension to load until the HDD turns back on. Sometimes, the HDD will spin down right after it turns on, sometimes it will keep spinning and boot right away. If it were easier to switch them out, I would...

That's a relief. I've had weird boot crashes on an SE/30 before that were due to a bad solder joint on one of the capacitors.

The analog board looks fine; the whole inside is remarkably clean. However, the logic board has been recapped with electrolytic (through-hole) capacitors! I did some research, and the SCSI drive inside (HD 530) was meant as an external hard disk. It does not seem to have been reformatted or...

Earlier today, I visited a seller to pick up an old SE, wanting to salvage the CRT & analog board for my SE/30, which has a relatively burnt-in tube and a loose joint hiding somewhere. The seller told me he had recapped all of the compact Macs in his workshop, and they were all in good or...

Third-party support would have arrived faster, had the Macintosh supported its own development environment of some kind. For the first few years, it was completely Lisa-reliant, if I remember.

Thank goodness you saved all of the most irreplaceable parts. The glob top on the accelerator is pretty sweet looking, and I'm curious to hear what that noise you described sounds like.

Because my router is so new, dd-wrt does not offer the option to set speed/duplex in the VLANs menu. However, I've found that you can use the Network Bridge function on a Windows machine with multiple network interfaces. The properties of the virtual "bridge" device contain a menu for setting to...

I may have a dying one, as well. There's a tiny, barely visible orange glow, but it's been like that for ages. Can picture tubes end up manufactured with an imperfect vacuum?

I'm also curious about switches and transceivers, many people here seem to know more about them than myself. My SE/30 has an Asante card (MacCon 30ie) with thinnet and thicknet (AUI), but my AUI-to-RJ45 transceiver box (E-TBT-MC05) is proving a nuisance, even with OpenTransport 1.3. I have it...

I am also intrigued by multibooting. I heard there was a utility named System Picker, which can switch between System Folders within the same partition. I'm kind of eager to try it out, now.