Well, this has to be my fastest transition from being totally stumped to having a working SE/30!
As you'll see if you click my .Mac Gallery link in my first post, I managed to get the SE/30 to boot, using my external SCSI HDD and the Reset button trick I described in my last post. Frankly, I'm still mystified as to why it's behaving this way, but I'm quite excited that it's showing signs of recovery. In the long run, it may still make sense to replace this flakey board with a more reliable one, but for the time being, it's a good start.
Now, to play with that video card! BTW, is that type of PDS video card of the variety that can be used to improve the bit-depth of the internal monitor? I seem to recall reading years back that it was possible to get the stock monitor to display greyscale, but it required a PDS video board. Am I way off base?
Thanks again for following along with this - I promise that I'll catalog and share any of the useful info gleaned from the 3(!) boxes of original software, books, manuals and accessories...
;D
Huxley
As you'll see if you click my .Mac Gallery link in my first post, I managed to get the SE/30 to boot, using my external SCSI HDD and the Reset button trick I described in my last post. Frankly, I'm still mystified as to why it's behaving this way, but I'm quite excited that it's showing signs of recovery. In the long run, it may still make sense to replace this flakey board with a more reliable one, but for the time being, it's a good start.
Now, to play with that video card! BTW, is that type of PDS video card of the variety that can be used to improve the bit-depth of the internal monitor? I seem to recall reading years back that it was possible to get the stock monitor to display greyscale, but it required a PDS video board. Am I way off base?
Thanks again for following along with this - I promise that I'll catalog and share any of the useful info gleaned from the 3(!) boxes of original software, books, manuals and accessories...
;D
Huxley