OK, pics to come tonight. I was too busy tearing it apart last night to see what's inside so I didn't have time to get the camera out.
My findings so far:
- VERY dirty. I have cleaned out hundreds of nasty computers over the years but this one was in the top ten for dust accumulation.
- CRT is burned in really bad (you can see the previous desktop background clearly) and it may have some analog board issues (flickering, very dim.) I want to swap the tube in from one of my working SEs, but I don't know if I want to part out a working SE...might just end up buying another Compact for a donor.
- Radius card is a "FPDSE-30" full page display card. Obviously for an external monitor. However, there is an extension in the system folder called "RadiusMATH." Not sure what it does yet.
- Every capacitor needs to be replaced, and I have no sound.
- My IIfx ROM worked for a few reboot cycles, and then stopped working. Won't boot at all with it now, just get a garbled screen right away.
- External SCSI devices also cause the same garbled screen. Possibly capacitor or SCSI controller related?
- Floppy drive sticks very badly, fortunately, I have many spares.
My findings so far:
- VERY dirty. I have cleaned out hundreds of nasty computers over the years but this one was in the top ten for dust accumulation.
- CRT is burned in really bad (you can see the previous desktop background clearly) and it may have some analog board issues (flickering, very dim.) I want to swap the tube in from one of my working SEs, but I don't know if I want to part out a working SE...might just end up buying another Compact for a donor.
- Radius card is a "FPDSE-30" full page display card. Obviously for an external monitor. However, there is an extension in the system folder called "RadiusMATH." Not sure what it does yet.
- Every capacitor needs to be replaced, and I have no sound.
- My IIfx ROM worked for a few reboot cycles, and then stopped working. Won't boot at all with it now, just get a garbled screen right away.
- External SCSI devices also cause the same garbled screen. Possibly capacitor or SCSI controller related?
- Floppy drive sticks very badly, fortunately, I have many spares.