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Taking it apart and cleaning would be the best solution. On YouTube I forget if it was Mend it Mark who does electronics/computers or most Likely Spare Time Repair who does audio gear mostly where I seen the guy take apart micro switches, LED panels, pots, and other stuff to clean them and...

Clean it sooner rather than later.

Shame about the battery damage. Some of the surface case yellowing will come off with a soap and water scrubbing.

can you put up pictures of the Micromac SE insides (very interesting)?

OSX 10.4.x with 256/512MB of RAM and an unsupported GPU is not fun (yes, I know the geforce2mx is supported in this case).

I put a Daystar 040 into a IIx and from what I remember it was a tight fit, but it has been a while.

That's a perfect OS 9.2.2 machine to me. I have a later G4 1.25 Ghz widescreen iMac that is OSX only but would love to run OS 9 on it if I could.

Looks fine to me for a zero footprint drive.

I have a box of OEM DELL system restore disks a guy gave me a long time ago, many copies of XP and Vista plus FreeDOS.

NVME would be interesting if you could make it bootable, or if you still run video editing on the old beast.

You can spot Apple FB-DIMMs from the unique heatsink airflow design (and they probably need it since that RAM does get hot). I quit looking for Pros a while ago because they were heavy to ship and people still wanted some cash for them compared to the dirt-cheap PC equivalents. I love the look...

It's a must if you have a 200W+ CPU that needs to be kept cool. G5's like the 2.5 MC have a TDP of 125W which today is easy to air cool with a few heat pipes, its wasn't the norm when Apple was designing the G5 (just aluminum or copper fins and fans). The downsides of liquid cooling are leaks...

I figured the only people that cared about those adapters were people looking to make a gaming PC from an old server motherboard that was PCI-X only. So, there was a brief period of time somebody would have wanted one. Kind of like PATA to SCSI adapters.

Could be refresh related, try a CRT monitor if you have one.

You can go crazy with RAM 16x 16MB SIMMs is 256MB, I even had a max out Daystar PPC card with another 128MB but generally 64MB is more than enough.

I have a battery bombed IIvx I snagged to put a Quadra 650 motherboard into. Found the Quadra board at a recycler ages ago and the IIvx was offered for shipping because it was toast (back in 2015). Time flies. I would try to save it since the IIvx isn't exactly that common and that board...

Max is 2MB VRAM, the very high end NUBUS cards were 3-6MB I think. Built in video on a Quadra is plenty fast but color depth gets limited because of VRAM. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quadra_950.html "The onboard video can support 512x384 at 24-bit and 640x480...

I have a Daystar 68040/40 that was modded by somebody to do over 50Mhz, but it does have a fan on the heatsink.

Nice. It's been a long time since I have had a massive computer haul like in the good old days, just some things here and there.

I could never sell my 950's too cool and too many useful Nubus slots. The front panel is the only bare unpainted plastics on the machine so it will yellow sometimes. Did you get keys with it? 30 pin SIMMs are probably going to be harder to find then the good old days but even with 16 x 1MB...