grats! Id love to find one myself one day Click to expand... It is surprising what you can find by posting an ad for 'unwanted macs, will pickup' Over the past year I have fou…

grats! Id love to find one myself one day

That last paragraph is key, and very good news for me, who has a IIfx to get up and running soon.

Make sure you installed the batteries correctly and they're the type that are supposed to be soldered. If I were you, I would install 3.6 V battery holders so you don't have to bo…

I recapped both of my IIx systems and the IIx spare motherboard, they are reliable now. Not realy that many capacitors (or values) needed.

As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof Click to expand... Well that's a good thing anyway, as they are over 20 years old!

Surface mount caps can leak from underneath and sometimes you wont see the goo until you remove them. Click to expand... 9 out of 10 times i hear that i think people are mistak…

PSU is a refurb I purchases as initially I thought it was faulty. As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof

Surface mount caps can leak from underneath and sometimes you wont see the goo until you remove them. Capacitors inside the PSU itself are probably due for replacement anyway.

No luck even after the MC68030 which was 'borrowed' from a working Mac.

From my notes: The IIfx introduced a new implementation of Mac SCSI that was faster than previous versions. Unfortunately, IIfx SCSI introduced a set of quirks that are unique to …

The 550 board is, if I recall, identical to the Color Classic II and is easily swappable. Keep in mind the 520 and 550 use the 68030; the machines mentioned in the original post al…

I think that terminator was to fix noise problems, terminate the SCSI chain like you normally would for any other mac.

It originally had a 68030/16 so any 68030 should work when installed.

Memory slot tabs are broken and RAM is held in place with little bit of dough (i think) I will try to remove ALL ram one pair to see if the helps and will add CPU directly to boar…

What is that crud by the RAM (dust or did somebody break off the retaining tabs and glue the RAM in)? Also looks like you might have RAM that isn't matched in one bank. Try remov…

No visible goo from capacitors Image with Processor card. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_err…

No idea how to check capacitors Click to expand... look for goop around metal cans

Can you take a decent picture of the motherboard with cards removed?

ROMM SIMM installed. Power switch in the back (and ones on the side) all click. No idea how to check capacitors

Does it contain a stock SE motherboard Click to expand... No. The Dynamac went down that path, apparently, and used my favourite retro display tech - electroluminescent. http…

I had a longer post all ready to go and lost it when I tried to preview . . . without copying to "clipboard" first. :I Click to expand... There's a Firefox addon called L…

I had a longer post all ready to go and lost it when I tried to preview . . . without copying to "clipboard" first. :I short version: You're right, the Q605 is the best bet…

If you're looking to use a 500 series without a monitor, you may also want to consider the 580, which uses IDE drives instead of the less common, pricier SCSI. The monitor on the 5…

Well, it was like this since I got it. It might be that, I don't know. I don't even know if it's worth saving, as the CD-ROM drive is dead and the floppy drive has a disk stuck in…