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Full recap of the analog board is pretty easy and cheap compared to other restoration needs. No reason not to do that.

hmmm..seemed like a reasonable question. Just wondered if it was a certain range of years. Thanks for the info anyway.

By serial number or other? Is it true that these are the most prone to leaking? That has been my own experience.

Good advice. Thanks.

uh-oh........

ok that made me laugh. It would be the best possible way.

What would be the best way to test a glue chip from my sadly battery bombed SE/30 to see if: A) the corrosion which has been cleaned off was enough to destroy it. Looks OK visually.. B) I didn't kill it with my heat gun trying to remove it. Thanks for any help. All I have is a multimeter but...

Thanks! Found it on macintoshgarden.

Thanks, I would very much appreciate a photo of that.

gonna try to salvage whatever I can. It looks like the pins on the GLUE might be OK. maybe not. That one side looks pretty bad.

well I took a chance and lost on this one… Thought you should see this mess though.

When it boots up and loads the OS9.2.2 desktop it says "The software needed to use the USB device "Unknown Device" cannot be found. Please refer to the device documentation...." Not sure what that is referring to? Nothing is plugged in to any ports at all but it does recognize a USB flash drive...

I must be slow. I'm still not seeing firmware commands in any of those threads. I've got the MacOS9lives Unsupported G4 OS running but still cant find the additional open firmware commands need to get USB etc working.

Well, I feel .... It turns out the little cable from the power button to the logic board was not properly seated. All is well. Now I need to figure out how to make this boot OS9 natively.

Nightmares...I got Leopard installed on the SSD fine but now it is randomly going to a black screen and occasionally responding to the power button, sometimes chimes to a screen, sometimes chimes but no screen. Other times seemingly dead. Mind of it's own.

I left it to install, came back an hour later to a black screen and it wont boot at all....but I do get a chime (but still a black screen) when I hold down Option-Command R-P....very weird. Any ideas? EDIT: Disregard...now it's back. Gonna try a reinstall.

Well I wound up going to Micro Center and getting some DVD-R's. Made a Leopard install disc and it hung up using the internal DVD drive. Connected an external DVD drive to the USB ports and it looks like I'm in business... at least that verifies the USB ports are working correctly... fingers...

Does Target disk mode work only over firewire or it possible to do with USB? I just don't have a firewire cable at the moment.

Ah the Target Mode is a great idea. Yeah I should've said USB Drive not Disc..It's just a Samsung thumb drive.

I've got a USB drive with a 10.4 Tiger image. It works fine as an install for my Power Mac G4 MDD. Trying to format and install tiger on a new SSD in the PowerBook G4 but the USB disc does not show up at all. It doesn't show up in open firmware mode either under "dev / ls" but as stated, it...