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| Recapping Question | |
| Posted by: NathanHill on 2020-08-20 08:56:35 I just want to thank everyone in this thread for your help. Though my IIci and Quadra boards are going to be a long term work in progress with damaged pads, I nerve-wrackingly recapped my father's SE/30 today. I did a couple of capacitors twice, because I wasn't sure. And I will be clear, it's kind of a mess. A few of the capacitors look different, almost scarred with a few pieces of solder. It was frustrating. I reinstalled the motherboard and booted and was met with checkerboard then vertical lines. Rather than freak out and redo the whole thing, I tested with my multimeter, made sure the ROM chip was installed, and then put the same set of RAM in Bank A. It booted. (I even ended up using two tantalum capacitors in a tight spot that worked great.) Exciting.  | |
Posted by: Mr SN on 2020-08-20 09:59:00I just want to thank everyone in this thread for your help.Nicely done and congratulations! Good work, and nice feeling to bring something back to life. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: krishnadraws on 2020-08-20 23:43:23 Great work! 🙂 | |
| Posted by: ScutBoy on 2020-08-21 01:29:12 Always good to see either the flashing disk or the happy Mac, along with a healthy chime! | |
| Posted by: NathanHill on 2020-08-25 08:04:57 The SE/30, despite some issues with the BMOW MAC ROMinator II, is humming along quite well. My Color Classic has screen issues, which seems common. I didn't see a kit for it on Console5, so I'm curious if you all recommend a particular store that sells a kit for this Mac or if the Mac Classic analog board kit is good enough? https://console5.com/store/macintosh-classic-analog-pcb-cap-kit-for-p-n-630-0420-240v.html/  | |
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