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After reading a few short stories about Apple's developers in the 1980's, I found that the isopropyl alcohol had completely evaporated (and stopped stinking up the room). My multimeter didn't seem to find any continuity issues, where I previously assumed traces had been broken. To see if there...

I saw that, as well. I enjoyed it, since I will eventually need to install a SCSI2SD. I also don't often see people building their own mounting brackets, which is pretty neat. If I remember, 8-Bit Guy may have made some interesting points about whether or not the IIgs was superior to the...

The attached WinImage file (Which should work for dd on OS X, or really any raw image writer) is taken from a disk of the slightly-older Asante software. Downloading the later version would only give me a zero-length file. I put together the disk on my PowerMac G4, then made this binary image on...

dd is a utility from Unix that can write Macintosh (or really any) disks. On Windows, there's ImageWriter for making floppies. They both read a regular binary format, sometimes saved with the extension ".img". I could make a binary image containing the Asante installer, for either a 1440k or...

There are two versions of the Asante drivers that I've seen online, and the Mac Driver Museum has them both. If you want a floppy image for writing the disk with dd in OS X, I can extract one of these and make it into a disk image on my PowerMac G4. Then you wouldn't need to pay anyone for a...

I've washed the entire board with alcohol, agitating the container gently. It is now drying next to a fan, which was mostly needed because of the fumes. I doubt I'll be able to get the SE/30 working again without guidance, let alone at all. However, I have a decent camera available, so I can now...

That's probably right. Before I do anything more to the board, I'm going to need to clean it up and make sure nothing can deteriorate any further. Then I can worry about finding bad traces and UE8. What is the "de-facto" way to neutralize the corrosion in an SE/30? The last time I did it was...

I'm sure it's not more than 1 or 2 bad traces, if any. The slot somehow "magically" worked in 2015, when I cleaned up the board. There's also an IC with some corrosion on it that needs a serious cleaning. It's some green stuff stuck on the package itself, not really much on the pins. I did the...

There is something afoul with my UE8. Not only that, but there are some very damaged traces that I failed to notice when inspecting the board before. Some of these are near the PDS slot, too, which is kind of a slap in the face. I guess they were somehow connected for a brief time in 2015...

I don't recall the readings ever getting that low. If I'm correct, UE8 is an IC? I have never attempted to replace one of those. I'll probably check if the one on my board heats up. Is there a technical reason for UE8 drawing so much power?

I'm sorry to reply to my own post again, I could not find an edit button. I tested the 5V on my SE/30's SCSI power connector, and it appears to dwindle a bit after power on, even if the PDS slot is empty. The machine doesn't seem to react when it's dancing around 4.8V. But once the PDS card is...

My board is the model with the CPU attached, so I don't think it applies. I should have been more specific about it in the first post. When inspecting the board, I have never noticed any bad traces. I'm not sure if the power supply is the culprit, since it was replaced around 2 years ago. Of...

Is there a certain method for cleaning the contacts in my logic board's PDS slot? I am not sure how much dirt could be inside the pin holes, now that you mention it. Then again, I don't know of a way to peer inside. All of the pins on the cards themselves look clean and stand straight.

About the drivers, yes and no. The Color Board used to work without one, and any manuals I've read say it's not required. The Asante card does use a driver, which I have not yet installed. I am new to PDS installations, and I should have thought of this. However, I don't know why a card with no...

About a year ago, I cleaned an SE/30 motherboard and recapped it with tantalum capacitors. It has been working normally since then, except for one of the axial capacitors, which was not properly soldered. I got bus errors and sad macs recently, but solved them all by re-soldering the bad joints...

Hello, I have recently and successfully recapped my SE/30, and I'm interested in connecting it to my network to transfer files to it via FTP. However, I am relatively new to expansion cards for Compact Macs. What are some decent/common standard (RJ45) ethernet cards compatible with the SE/30...