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SE/30 logic board foreign object?
Posted by: macclassic on 2019-05-04 16:15:09
After some serious inspection of the back of one of my SE/30 logic boards  I found the shown  object jammed between two pins of the UK6 Video ROM?

Can't be right surely?

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Posted by: Compgeke on 2019-05-04 16:40:29
That's a small surface mount capacitor shoved in. For what? I don't know, but if it works, I'd leave it.
Posted by: PB145B on 2019-05-04 16:44:12
Doesn’t look right to me; you can see glue on it from where it used to be glued to a board. It also doesn’t appear soldered in.
Posted by: unity on 2019-05-04 19:10:31
Yeah.. pull that out. I dont think its suppose to be there. I certainly never had a board with anything like that.
Posted by: Jinnai on 2019-05-04 19:42:55
I'd be more concerned about where it came from, lol. Maybe the FDD or HDD.
Posted by: macclassic on 2019-05-05 07:15:34
I cant see anything missing on the FDD and the computer had no HDD when I got it so It must have got jammed in there by sheer chance on a workbench.

I have now pulled it out with tweezers.  🙂

Posted by: lowlytech on 2019-05-06 05:34:19
What are the odds of that getting stuck right there.  crazy..
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