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Help me 68KMLA, you're my only hope!

Hallo ouens ek hoop almal is goed hey!

I'm having some problems with recent acquisitions that I am hoping someone may be able to advise me on...

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I have a Classic a SE FD and an SE FD HD, all of which have some issue, here they are above out in my garage workshop where I had  hoped to use one of my other systems to make some system disk or at least help with the problems:

The classic II displays this on boot so I think maybe the board needs replacement capacitors? It bongs happily but the screen is messed up which is a real shame: 

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The next one I found in an abandoned office space on the outskirts of Johannesburg, it was covered in bird kak but I cleaned it off and it seems happy to wait for bootable media so that's a good thing.

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The last one with the HD is stuck in a loop, whether I click OK or CANCEL the system will reboot to the same point, I'm hoping there's some keyboard shortcut that will help with breaking out of this? 

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I also scored a SCSI external disk drive which I've currently misplaced in a box somewhere, I will dig it out and try as it was connected to the mac that was abandoned.

All in all I paid maybe 1000 rand (about 74 USB) for the Classic II and the se HD FD (the one stuck in a loop) which I was pretty happy about as I got a load of non-related vintage hardware as part of the deal. 

Totsiens! 

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Well Leia, the Classic II definitely needs caps and the SE FDHD could be either corrupted files on the HD or a dying HD.  I'd try booting from a floppy or external HD and running First Aid (or Disk Doctor, or whatever) to see if that fixes it.

 
I agree, the Classic and Classic II range are prone to cap leakage, both on the Logic Board and Analog Board.

You will need around 12 x 10µf 16 v caps / 2  x 47 µf  16v and 2 x 1 µf 50v for the Logic Board only.

Concerning the Analog Board you will need a couple of caps as well.

 
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