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I recently read that the IDE-2-SD adapters you find online are actually CF-2-SD adapters repurposed as an IDE replacement. The speed is limited to 25MB/s due to the SDHC protocol used by the FC1307A chipset on the board. Alos SD card do wear fast also when used with intensive writes (i.e...

Ok at first I though it was ok the "waves" on the chip are ok, but, it's dead for sure, it was crushed against the board on the upper right corner, pins are bent like hell. Right bottom corner has a crack in the chip for sure. I hope you will manage to get the CPU swapped! There is so much...

Focus can be tricky to get, aging and the fact we are used to sharper displays make this hard to get right. I did a calibration on my Classic Color, I never had a sharp focus across the whole CRT, I had be between two spot: sharp edges or sharp center. Same as you, I can't recall how good...

IIRC, it is possible, but not sure it's worth it since the drive should work fine externaly and the Mac could work without the inner drive connected.

Hello, 128k, 512k, 512ke and plus motherboards are interchangeable. SE and SE/30 have a connector like Classic and Classic II but SE series are not interchangeable with Classic series. Edit: So in your case, you can't test it without fixing your Classic analog board.

Hi, Last time I had this exact problem was a bad connection on one of the ground pin of U10 preventing a proper RESET on all ICs. Sadly, I can't recall which one.

It could, the reversed capacitor is on the -5V rail IIRC so if replaced with a 47µF 16V it will probably burn/blow at some point but in my experience it was just really hot. Since a tantalum blowing can do severe damage, it was a relief, but still a bad thing tho, I did immediatly replaced it...

That would be amazing, I don’t remember where I put my bombed one but I’m definitely interested in a IIfx board. Tell me if I could help. As always I amazed by the work done by the community in the last years, and you did a fantastic job with this IIcx. Thanks!

If you dig into service documentation you'll discover Apple actually replaced them, there was a kit for this purpose. I had one and I'll propably replace it because some blades were broken, and sadly it doesn't work properly despite some repairs.

I should receive a board from Robin soon. I didn't start working on getting components yet. I need to check what is salvageable from my board before.

Some inter-layer traces are heavly corroded nead the battery, PDS slot is rusty on the bottom of the board, I don't think it is "absolutly" beyond repair, but it's not worth it, for exemple half of the battery goo just won't go. And also may IC are contamined by heavy corrosion. Not a surprise...

Yeah I was a bit dramatical, it's not a bad deal at all. Even the 8 1MB memory sticks are worth it. I decided to move was can be salvage to a new PCB, because, despite the board not heavily damaged, it will took more time to fix with risk of internal layers been corroded... Plus Bolle's work is...

I'll be interested but I'm in the EU. Any europeans for a small batch?

And here is a day like any others, you find yourself stuck in traffic jam just to do few kilometers to get a SE/30 for 20€. What could go wrong? Oh you know exactly what could go wrong. Burned screen, dead hard drive, missing floppy drive, external damage… And two things you know will happen...

Got absolutely not problem with that. Just that I knew from the kid that the computer was working (actually both have G3 and G3 MDD parts), he gutted parts throwing everything in a big plastic bag. (ESD and scratches here you are) I just think there’s better ways to do it. Buying an empty case...

Sadly no, just a kid who wanted to put a pc in the B&W case 😢 As for the low voltage of the battery I had my suspicions, so I did a lot of testing and cuda resets. PRAM seems fine, passed multiple MTP runs without any trouble. But MTP is not good as AHT I suppose and no AHT is available for...

No battery. But I left it unplugged for about a whole day. I became suddenly easier to boot, still forcing it as the power button won’t do a thing, but it exactly booted every second try, I did few boots, never had an exception. Super strange. ESD shock is totally a possibility. What is...

Hi! This is an other episode from "BigBen tries to make garbage working again". Years ago, I bought a bunch of PowerMac spare parts. I was interrested by a PSU to replace a dead one in a PowerMac G4. Within the spare parts was a B&W G3 motherboard. Guess what I tried to boot it up. Starting by...

I’ll ask my father who bought it back in the day. I assumed it was the official thing but I rediscovered it was an epson few days ago. I assume it was bundled as a ZIP drive for Mac because IIRC it was shipped with a bunch of Mac ZIP disk. Had been bought around 1994/1996 I’d say.

From what I read and observed, Zip disks have pre-recorded alignment tracks (4 iirc), those are use to align the heads while reading or writing a disk. The zip drive can’t handle alignment without it If a disk happened to have those tracks damaged it can make the drive do a « click of death »...