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This makes a lots of sense to me. If I do another one of these I will likely do it in smaller batches with testing in between.

To be honest I was grasping at straws there and blindly following something I'd read in multiple places. On this page, Section II (Troubleshooting), Item 1 (Simasima), solution (5)... https://bylenga.ddns.net/SE30%20repair.html

Thanks for the feedback, makes sense.

Always possible some solder debris has lodged itself somewhere. That would make more sense to me than some unrelated component(s) spontaneously going bad when everything was working fairly well before the recap. I'll give cleaning another go. Yeah, the solder job could certainly be cleaner...

Pretty sure it was already gone, I noticed it missing before I did any major cleaning or removing.

Makes sense that you'd do them all at once, but since it's my first Mac recap I thought I'd test in between doing each board. Wanted to limit the number of variables in case I ended up in this scenario and had to start troubleshooting. I guess I'll move forward with the PSU and keep my fingers...

Ah, got it. So even though it's testing above 5V, and even though it was providing enough power in prior testing, that could have changed now that I've recapped the board? The new caps are drawing more current than the old ones were, and that perhaps is pushing the PSU over the edge?

Thanks for the reply but sorry, what's my problem? I'm getting 5.33V and 12.6V at the molex connector without the logic board connected, and 5.09V and 12.05V with the board connected.

Hello all. Longtime lurker, first time poster. It has been while since I owned a compact Mac, but recently came across an SE/30 for sale that was in surprisingly good shape. The seller insisted on booting it several times to show me it worked, and it seemed to boot fine to the internal SCSI...