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Can finally put my SE/30 reloaded to bed....
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-06-16 22:00:52
Chime, flashing ? and working ADB. Thanks for the help!!

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Posted by: Fred1212 on 2026-06-16 23:18:41
Well done
Posted by: JC8080 on 2026-06-17 02:46:36
Congratulations!
Posted by: Byrd on 2026-06-17 02:47:31
That board will past 50 years, nice work
Posted by: croissantking on 2026-06-17 03:13:05
Rev 3 board?
Posted by: finkmac on 2026-06-17 05:00:59
so what was the grand solution? don't keep us guessing 😆
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-06-17 08:14:26
It would be cool if I actually knew what the exact culprit was all along. Sockets everywhere and I did push out some of the connection pins on the VIA sockets then cleaned it again. Switched it on last night expecting the simasimac I've seen forever and it chimed...I stared at it in disbelief as the cursor showed up and then the question mark disk.

Also, I put in several new chips (including the GLUE) from a IICX board. I removed them by using enough heat to remove as much solder as possible with wick then I literally pried them off the board by sticking an angled tweezer under a corner and carefully ripping them up off the board (applying light pressure on top of the chip). Barbaric and controversial but I took about ten chips off the board this way and damaged zero pins. Just lifted some pads. Either way the chips were cleaned up and exposed to very little heat in the process. I've found the bigger chips on old boards extremely hard to remove with hot air. Maybe they used lead-free solder as well.

So all or some of those things made the difference. Not sure which.
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-06-17 08:24:43
Rev 3 board?
Not sure. It's one of the boards Colin got in the group buy.
Posted by: croissantking on 2026-06-17 12:05:18
Not sure. It's one of the boards Colin got in the group buy.
Yes, thought so - Its a Rev 3.
If you have any graphical anomalies you’ll need to do the bodge wire across the PAL chips.
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-06-17 12:18:35
Yes, thought so - Its a Rev 3.
If you have any graphical anomalies you’ll need to do the bodge wire across the PAL chips.
Right. I've heard that but so far so good.
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2026-06-18 11:26:36
congrats
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-06-20 06:25:33
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