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Yes. But at least 3 capacitors are missing and lots of PCB traces are damaged as well. Ram and CPU should be Ok though.

I believe there are good chances to save the Q610 mobo. Concerning Q660's mobo, well I decided to get one from eBay. Cost me US$ 81.20 with shipping and import taxes. D'oh!...

Another tragedy discovered today... Quadra 610 and 660av didn't make it :'( The mess was still liquid in the Q610 : Funny though, another soldered Varta battery from a Mac II still showing some charge

Bad, or rejected by a B&W G3 ? It's not the same :lol: Those seem to become pickier about ram quality.

Thank you Doug. I don't understand why it failed last year... Could have been a problem with my Quicksilver, or with the PC mobo I used for flashing. :lol:

That's the original flash chip. See post #4 in this topic.

Thanks to your discussion with Doug, it's a flashed one. ;) I bought a few of those cards with a 512KB chip last year when somebody told us about in this topic. I had to use the UPDFLASH.EXE dos flasher to feed them with Firmtek's ROMFILE.1S2. The red one is a genuine Ratoc (= Firmtek)...

Max: YES !!! :beige: :beige: I tested it in a G4 QS DP800 with OS 9.2.2 IIRC, that firmware was supposed to be compatible with MacOS ≥ 7.6.1 . Am I wrong ? I could test 8.0/8.1 on a Beige G3, but I don't have any older PCI PowerMac in working condition.

Yes, it is.

My turn ... Scared by this thread, I decided to remove dead batteries from the most easily accessible in from my collection. I removed 12, only 1 leaked, guess what brand it was... It was in my PM 8100/80. Even the optical drive has signs of corrosion :O Funny, the exploded/leaked...

I got these over the years: Performa 5400/200 Performa 6400/200 PowerMac 4400/200 PowerMac 7500 PowerMac 9500/200 PowerMac G3/233 DT PowerMac G3/300 MT PowerMac G3 B&W 300 rev1 PowerMac G3 B&W 350 rev1 (bought it new) PowerMac G4 Sawtooth PowerMac G4 Digital Audio PowerMac G4...

I remember reading reports about data corruptions on XLR8YourMac by mid' 1999.

I've always wondered why there was no class action lauched against Apple for such a design flaw.

IRC, corruption may occur even with a <10 GB single HDD, if that drive is "fast" enough. I bet a 9GB Seagate Medalist (ST39140A) would get data corruption.

Those B&W mobos are a pain to get back to work Try unplugging both IDE cables, push 15+seconds on the pram button, etc... Keep on trying various things, it may eventually come back to life but you won't undertand why (no one can) ;)

Thanks guys. I'll give a try and will post the results here. ;)

Hi guys, Most of us use this kind of 68-pin to 50-pin adapter: (both ends are male) They aren't that expensive, but I have found cheapers models of that kind : (both ends are female) My question is : will the latter work if plugged bewteen a mac 68k mobo and a 68-pin scsi flatcable...

Well, Wiebtech's flasher actually accepts to flash that 4mbit-eeprom card, but it doesn't turn it into an usable card : :?:

Wiebtech's flasher refuses to flash that card because of the "unsupported eeprom". Should be possible to flash wiebtech firmware using UPDFLASH.EXE on a PC, but I don't see the point in trying that. Any Sil3112 based card theoretically works with this small fimware.

Picture 06 is missing :-/