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Advice with SE30 restoration

Welp, as suspected I'm pretty sure I have fried the 68030 on this board at a minimum. I got and assembled one of those SE/30 Peekers and All the data lines are showing as dead. Thankfully this board has a socketed CPU but I have looked and can't find a replacement anywhere (Can I replace the 16MHz CPU with a 30 or 50MHz?). Also since I still don't get a raster or sound likely fried the Video ROM and possibly other chips. Guess this project goes on the shelf until I can find a donor board.


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You're making dodgy assumptions here. This board is much like my binkenpds card; what you observe must only be taken as a point in time state of the signals without a direct correlation to what is actually wrong. In other words, you can't assume the CPU is dead or anything else is wrong based off this alone. It is useful to get a vague idea of if the system is running but that is all. Diagnostic tools like this are often mismarketed as a catch-all troubleshooting tool when they actually require a lot of skill and finesse to get actionable information out of.

A useful test is to hit the reset switch and see if the LEDs change at all. If /RESET is correctly working and the CPU is not entirely prevented from working by board damage, typically you'll see the lines change state at least once. Or if you pull the ROM, and the CPU is basically sane you'll see it walk the bus (count on the address lines).

That said, if you did actually manage to short 12v into 5v then you may as well chuck the board as everything on it will have fried including the irreplaceable apple ASICs :(
 
Sorry to hear this. Mistakes happen and we've all made them. Hope you can get the board working and whatever you do, certainly do not chuck it. There are many parts on there which are still fine and could contribute to another troubled board.
 
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After I accepted that it was fried I just left on my bench for a few weeks and didn't even touch it. Just started moving parts over to a working SE I had yesterday. I'm sure another SE30 will come my way at some point. In the meantime I have 2 Plusses and a 7200 waiting for me and I have a lead on a working IIci.
 
After I accepted that it was fried I just left on my bench for a few weeks and didn't even touch it. Just started moving parts over to a working SE I had yesterday. I'm sure another SE30 will come my way at some point. In the meantime I have 2 Plusses and a 7200 waiting for me and I have a lead on a working IIci.
ah..the 7200/90. The first Mac I ever bought with my own money back in 96 I think.
 
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