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Same situation. There are at least 3-4 things in the vintage mac community I could solve with a decent lab. One of these days it will happen.
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Ok, here's what the case and CRT look like today, all nice and restored other than the burn mark. The lighting makes it look a lot more yellow than it really is. It's a very pleasant beige now. The full submersion retrobright seems to have brightened it up just a little bit, which is exactly what I wanted.
I didn't replace all of the caps on the analog board, but I did replace all of the ones on this upgrade list. I had about $15 left in my "geek budget" for the month so I decided to just replace these specifically at first.
Here's my tape job on the anode cap. I still don't feel like the metal clip is holding on very tight.
I put down a square of tape first (not touching the hole in any way), and then another layer of tape holding the cap down:
Then I put the case back on, flipped the switch aaaaaaaaaaand... Black screen, no bong, and a low "whooooorrrrrrrrrrrr" buzzing sound. It's not high pitched like a mosquito, it's very low. I quickly turned the switch back off. After a few minutes, I was brave enough to try again, and this time it went "whhhhoooooooorrrr, whhhoooooor, whooor, whor whorwhor" and I shut it down because I was terrified.
Anyone want to guess about what is going on? I'm suspecting that the anode clips aren't making good contact, but that is just a guess.
I didn't replace all of the caps on the analog board, but I did replace all of the ones on this upgrade list. I had about $15 left in my "geek budget" for the month so I decided to just replace these specifically at first.
Here's my tape job on the anode cap. I still don't feel like the metal clip is holding on very tight.
I put down a square of tape first (not touching the hole in any way), and then another layer of tape holding the cap down:Then I put the case back on, flipped the switch aaaaaaaaaaand... Black screen, no bong, and a low "whooooorrrrrrrrrrrr" buzzing sound. It's not high pitched like a mosquito, it's very low. I quickly turned the switch back off. After a few minutes, I was brave enough to try again, and this time it went "whhhhoooooooorrrr, whhhoooooor, whooor, whor whorwhor" and I shut it down because I was terrified.
Anyone want to guess about what is going on? I'm suspecting that the anode clips aren't making good contact, but that is just a guess.
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Here's what it sounds like. Hopefully the .mkv isn't a pain to play back. VLC handled it just fine on my modern Mac.
View attachment MVI_0863.mkv
View attachment MVI_0863.mkv
Nope, everything is properly connected. With the exception of the anode cap, which I messed with and messed with but never really felt was firmly attached. I wonder if that sound is the computer attempting to bong, but there being some crazy under/over volt issue due to the anode cap not being fully connected?
Sucks... I REALLY didn’t want to touch the anode cap again!
Well, don't be so afraid of it 
it won't leap out of it's case to get you, at least. If I were you I would attempt to power it on with the rear case off and figure out if the noise was the speaker, the FDD, or the CRT. I had one that somehow had a short in the CRT, and it made a noise (though not necessarily like this one) and the end glowed purple.
I know you said everything is connected but to mention again the ground wire going to a top CRT screw...
it won't leap out of it's case to get you, at least. If I were you I would attempt to power it on with the rear case off and figure out if the noise was the speaker, the FDD, or the CRT. I had one that somehow had a short in the CRT, and it made a noise (though not necessarily like this one) and the end glowed purple.I know you said everything is connected but to mention again the ground wire going to a top CRT screw...
Double-checked and yes, the CRT ground is properly connected.
I did another test with the case off. If I turn the power off and back on rapidly, it will chime (hooray)! but then goes into that rapid on-off-on-off thing that you heard. I hear the CRT sounding like it's turning off and back in very rapidly. The sound you hear in the video is not the disk drive.
How DARE YOU! You think that I, the Great Potato, would install a capacitor backwards?! I am so offended right now. SO offended.
...but seriously. Yes, I might have. I tried very hard to NOT do this, but it is possible. I think tonight or tomorrow, I'll take it back apart, discharge the CRT, pull the analog board, and carefully check for polarity issues. I'll also snap some pictures of the anode connector and post them here - I'm still wondering if I bent something there, and that is the culprit.
Home from a business trip and had components waiting. Here's what happened:
- Checked for backwards capacitors, everything looks good
- Replaced caps C2 + one more that I can't see now that it's back in the computer
- Replaced CR21 Schottky barrier with an MBR360 rectifier (per Dead Mac Scrolls page 22)
- Turned voltage all the way counterclockwise (per Dead Mac Scrolls page 27)
- Turned voltage almost all the way clockwise
- Checked for blue wire continuity between the analog and logic boards (per Dead Mac Scrolls page 26)
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Thanks for the tip! Is there any way to test it? Have you seen this symptom resolved by replacing the optoisolator? I'm worried that I'm starting to just replace random parts instead of troubleshoot.
Hi, no there is no way to test it, but i have fixed a lot of them with this symptom.
I you have another board you can do a swap for a test, in the Plus this part is socketed, even can use one from a Classic, not the same reference but works the same.
Don't remember but the part is pretty cheap anyway.
I you have another board you can do a swap for a test, in the Plus this part is socketed, even can use one from a Classic, not the same reference but works the same.
Don't remember but the part is pretty cheap anyway.
