Tonight is just getting better! 
Stiff brush across all the IC legs and CC #2 which I got from the original owner around 12 years ago now boots up again complete with a healthy chime. Definitely seems to have evidence of caps gone leakies in the past however so this one will be going at the very top of the recap pile with my SE/30 board.
It turns out I removed the HDD from the other one entirely hence the lack of activity, and this one spins up and then dies again which seems to be a common mode of failure for this era of Quantum drive. Unfortunately I havent any 7.x boot floppies at present (gotta make some new ones now the 9600 is on the web) but I am confident that it will boot up fine.
One thing I notice about this machine however is it has a shadow in the top left corner as though suffering magnetic interference, however there is no real source of the above present and the other CC set up in the same position does not do it. Any ideas?
Stiff brush across all the IC legs and CC #2 which I got from the original owner around 12 years ago now boots up again complete with a healthy chime. Definitely seems to have evidence of caps gone leakies in the past however so this one will be going at the very top of the recap pile with my SE/30 board.
It turns out I removed the HDD from the other one entirely hence the lack of activity, and this one spins up and then dies again which seems to be a common mode of failure for this era of Quantum drive. Unfortunately I havent any 7.x boot floppies at present (gotta make some new ones now the 9600 is on the web) but I am confident that it will boot up fine.
One thing I notice about this machine however is it has a shadow in the top left corner as though suffering magnetic interference, however there is no real source of the above present and the other CC set up in the same position does not do it. Any ideas?