Recap Glory - SE/30 and ColorClassic back in action

[massiverobot]

I just got my two boards back from Uni today (thx). I got a SE/30 and CC recapped.

Now I finally have my SE/30 working without the weird SCSI problems it's had for the past 3 years!

Here are some photos of the happy work today:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's now got 7.5.3 and happily working along side my Canon Cat. It's amazing how much faster this is- I've been using this SE for the past 2 weeks, goofing around. It's soooo much faster.

The 50MHZ card is also helping there I'm sure. Technology was just making huge leaps and bounds back then.

 

[Elfen]

Very nice. Uni strikes again! SE/30 infected with Ebola - CURED! Or something like that. 

 

[olePigeon]

Out of curiosity, why is the DiiMO coveted more than the Daystar 040?

 

[Elfen]

I'm just speculating here - the SE & SE/30 power supply is about 90w. That is barely enough for the SE/30, with about 20 or so watts for what expansion you put in. A Daystar 040 would be too much in terms of electrical power as the 040 is a beast compared to a 030.

 

[massiverobot]

Out of curiosity, why is the DiiMO coveted more than the Daystar 040?

I didn't realize it was- this just came with this SE/30 when I liberated it about 10 years ago. It's the first one I've seen.

But I can sometimes see that heavy CPU usage gives some feedback in the screen- I guess it is affecting the PS. Perhaps that needs to get redone as well.

 

[Elfen]

What is the second card used for?

I would not say to recap the DiiMO card, but to at least recap the power supply instead. If the DiiMO card has the same caps as the SE/30 motherboard, then recap the DiiMO, but recap the PSU first.

 

[olePigeon]

Yeah, recap PSU.

I'm not sure how the SE/30 is wired up, but for my IIci, I ended up just chucking out my PSU's innards, and buying a little $20 micro-ATX power supply.  It provided almost twice the power of my original PSU (400w vs 225w), and was small enough that I just zip tied it inside the old case for the IIci power supply, then connected my custom wire harness (basically, I just soldered and heatshrinked the ATX molex cable to my IIci's connector.)  At one point I ran 3 Radius Rockets with max RAM and my DayStar Turbo 040 all at once.  I think there's a picture of it somewhere on the forums.

For a little more money (I think about $60) you could buy a 350w mini-ITX power supply.  These are pretty darn small, about 3/5 the size of an LC power supply.

Even smaller (and more money, of course) are the pico sized power supplies.  These are so tiny you can put them anywhere.  They run up to about 300w, which should be more than enough.

 

[Elfen]

olePigeon, you are giving me ideas as to what to do with the "spare boards" I have around.

 

[massiverobot]

What is the second card used for?

I would not say to recap the DiiMO card, but to at least recap the power supply instead. If the DiiMO card has the same caps as the SE/30 motherboard, then recap the DiiMO, but recap the PSU first.

The second card in the photo? That's just the Asante Si-SE/30 ethernet card...

 

[Elfen]

EtherNet and 50MHz... damn, that's like having a Q950 with B/W Video Only! I can do a lot with that! Thumbs Up on the SE/30 repair!

Hows that Color Classic doing?

 

[massiverobot]

EtherNet and 50MHz... damn, that's like having a Q950 with B/W Video Only! I can do a lot with that! Thumbs Up on the SE/30 repair!

Hows that Color Classic doing?

I just made sure it powered on, but something is up w/ the internal SCSI drive. And the Syquest that had been booting it for years is now dead- it spins up but won't engage and swing the heads out (the fast clicking noise thet make). So the CC just flashes a Disk? icon at me. But I'm really just interested in the SE/30, the CC is nice cause I have it, but it just seems like an out-of-place mac. The color is wacky. I'll get around to it. I've never opened it up since you can slide the CPU out so easily. I have to see what's up with the HD in that thing.

But I just fished out my IIfx from the attic yesterday and was cleaning that up. It's been up there for 10+ years. No leaks on the batts (they are from '89- and made in Israel) and it looks clean, but the thing won't boot. I think maybe the new batts i put in need a charge or something. i know it needs the batts to kick start the PS.

 

[Elfen]

With the IIfx, those large drives tend to suffer from stiction - when the lubrication on the heads, patters and spindle solidify into a thick gel and causes the controller to burn out. So that drive is going to need to be replaced. And take out its mother board and check the two silver caps on the extreme right side that tend to leak. I'm replacing the ones on my IIfx. I also need new PRAM Batteries and a way to jump-start the IIfx as well as a new hard drive.

As for the color classic, I have seen that certain OSes tend to soft-crash (lose boot information) more than others. If you can get a Norton Emergency Boot floppy disk or a System Tools Disk for that Color Classic, you should be able to run Disk First Aid and 8 times out of 10, fix an otherwise dead drive. Just make sure that the floppy disk's OS is the same or above that of the Color Classic's hard drive OS. For me I have fixed more "Dead Hard Drives" this way than actually taking the machine apart. In a worst case you should be able to format and reinstall the OS on the hard drive.