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Got a hold of a cheap IIci and made the logic board sparkle again. Lifted dull-looking chips, cleaned the legs and pads, drag-soldered back fresh. Nice new caps, no broken traces in the acid zones, power circuit works. However, either the ROMSEL circuit or the ROM chips themselves are again bad, like in my IIcx, though the machine works great with a slot ROM. Am I cursed to irradiate every mask ROM I touch?!

I bodged a dedicated reference crystal onto my Beige G3’s ATI chip, which means I can play around with the main reference crystal without losing onboard video.

I'd seen mentions of cursors flickering on some Macs because of time/RTC related problems. After taking a closer look at the RTC circuitry in my cheap Mac IIcx, sure enough, it's not the video card! After scraping, tinning, and meticulous bodging, it's all right.

This 040 has been saved
Boots and works after fixing two broken pins.

I hate flea markets, unlike my children and their mother. But this morning I was well advised to go with them.
I found this nice PowerBook 180c for 30€. Even if it's dead, it would still be a bargain.

As long as we're in the mood of trying to save '040s, do you think this one is salvageable?

This shutdown dialog under System 7.1 is particular to the 840AV. Normally, nothing happens when you press the power key under 7.1. It’s a customisation built into this machine’s system enabler.

I’m hoping to save this 040 chip, soldered to one of @zigzagjoe’s QFP2PGA boards. I ground two corners with a Dremel to be able to attach repair wires to the missing pins, which were lost to corrosion. Might give you some ideas for yours @jmacz

Good old Bryce

Didn't want to bother making a whole forum post but does anyone know if the ixMicro Dual Display card required its own specific installer/drivers or did the usual Twin Turbo ones work on it? Trying to help someone on Reddit. Of course OWC is down, I think they still hosted old ixMicro installers.

It just occurred to me that one could measure how overpriced something is in decibels.

It's always good when you find "#define FUCKED" half-way down the code you're reading

040 powers.. yes I’m learning POV

Hello 68K Community: Awesome Forum

My SE/30s are very ill. Stock PSU issues, mostly. They’re recapped, but their +5V rails are too low. I might try tweaking the voltage pot - but +12V is already quite high.

Build is looking good! Just waiting for my BlueSCSI PCB's so I can finish it off

it’s been assimilated

made me one of these.