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Post #21 by equill
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 14 Apr 2008 - 06:05
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/daystar-iisi-se-30-adapter-150-on-ebay.12779/
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Equil: You were the one who snagged a "dead" SE30 motherboard from ebay recently with 128MB of RAM for $52? If so is the motherboard realy dead?
I haven't even attempted to fire it up, because the Fatal Gods were obviously already in control. Just about every capacitor (perhaps other than the axial-lead caps) that could have leaked appeared to have leaked. There was some corrosion of the pins of a few ICs. The RAM-slot clips were of the plastic rather than the metal variety, and every one of them in Bank B had broken. The red objects in that bank in the pic were stabilizing (neoprene?) plugs to jam the RAM cards in place. Bank A is perfect. In all other respects the MLB was in good condition, although I had to let the battery (0.9V) go ...

However, I scored 128MB of 30-pin 70ns RAM (USD60), a socketted-CPU MLB which will clean up nicely and be recapped, and I have met enough done-in RAM slots in my time to have devised a replacement clip to suit. All in all, a useful acquisition.

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