I'm with Wally. I only understood about 10% of what he was talking about, but I'm with Wally.

Page 293 in the normally authoritative source differs with reality. 8-o Two actual SE/30 boards before me have a current limiting device, F1 in the ADB power net. In one inst…

Bump I finally got around to trying this out, but haven't had much success so far. I borrowed an Adaptec 29160N card from a friend, which has a 50-pin connector, and hooked up the…

The IIfx has a 1A fuse between the SWIM chip and the RFI filter, the SE and SE30 do not. There is a 470 Ohm resister in line with the 5VDC line powering the ADB signal line, that …

..."still not totally sure about doing the soldering myself. the current cylindric capacitors are seated in a little piece of black plastic. when removing the old capacitors, does …

Friendly reminder it's ADB

The older LCs used more powerful supplies than the newer ones. If you're restoring an original LC, I would *guess* that it's best to put in the more powerful version.

phreakout - thanks for your reply. based on the article i mentioned earlier (re: mac II in same situation) i was thinking it could be F1 or F2. I have located these on the logic …

The place to look for paint and dye hints is over at the Applefritter forums. Good results have been had with automotive vinyl dye, which soaks into the surface, and with Krylon F…

It appears that you took the PSU voltages while the PSU was disconnected from everything else? If so, I strongly suggest you put it all back together and take voltages from the fl…

Tom you've done a great job and Admin or no we will still look to you as such. May your current endeavors be favorable ones.

OK, this is real weirdness, JDW. I just reattached the power supply unit back up to the analog board and unplugged everything from the board except the power supply. I turned it …

If you hadn't mentioned that your fan wasn't spinning, I would have suggested you swap out the logic board. But if the fan isn't spinning and now that you have confirmed all is we…

Hmmm... I have plenty of keychains... er... memory laying around. Maybe my LC III could use some of that extra "memory" :lol:

Ahh, you might want to check the date of that article, because...well...obviously it doesn't.

Okay. I've checked the AC power cord and I'm getting power from the wall. About 120.2VAC. So I will rule that part out. I've went ahead and pulled the power supply unit and the…

Ladies and Gentleman: For those in need of recapping your SE/30 logic boards due to Simasimac symptoms, I can still commit myself to doing the work. Unfortunately, due to a sudde…

Ortencia, You'll need to open up the case and remove the "mobo", aka Logic Board in Apple Computer terms. This is the circuit board on the very bottom of the SE/30. Once the log…

Thanks for replying back about that. I figured as much. But no doubt someone out there has stock of them. I cannot imagine that NASA and the US Military would have snapped them …

The best SSD for the SE/30 is a drive that is made in the stock form factor (3.5") and already has a 50-pin SCSI connector. Indeed, one probably couldn't do much better than this:…

If you can't find a schematic following the traces and using a continuity tester should reveal the location of the fuse.

My pismo was a 500MHz unit with 1mb of L2 cache and 512mb of memory and I noticed fairly acceptable performance under both Panther and Tiger. The difference is minimal, and I tende…

thanks. i found the site again; it tells of a IIfx in a similiar situation. different motherboards obviously. shouldn't i be able to find this out with a copy of the schematics of …

yep that was it i didn't see it until i saw a picture will this one work http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/RMF-224/0.22-UF-250-VOLT-POLYESTER-FILM-CAPACITOR/-/1.htm…

Yeah. I'm still curious as to why give up Admin status... Not able to afford the time anymore to keep the forums up and running? Thanks for keeping this wonderful site up and run…