Oh right, I thought older solder used to have more lead than that. *is stupid* :I Click to expand... Plumbing solder is 50/50 Tin/Lead. Electrical solder is 60/40 Tin/Lead. …

Oh right, I thought older solder used to have more lead than that. *is stupid* :I

The ThunderCachePro does not have a Control Panel only an Extension called MM TCP v1.0. That is very sensitive. If the card is not in place, it will give you a blank screen and wo…

Is there a control panel installed? Sounds like you don't have the drivers loaded.

I have benchmarked a couple of storage solutions I had lying around, including: Seagate Cheetah 10k RPM ST9102LW SanDisk UltraII 4GB CompactFlash Quantum ProDrive LPS connected …

Hello all, I installed a micromac ThunderCachePro on my CC and nothing really seems to be faster. I bought this card back in 1997 and decided to give it one more try. When the C…

(It's in the second slot, BTW. I keep the original Rage 128 in the first slot.) Click to expand... You do know that in the B&W G3 and PCI GFX G4 the shorter slot is 66M…

Try plugging the display into the old ati rage card, start it up as normal. Then shut it down and swap back to your newer video card.

Until you hit a website with a drop of flash. Either way that's really cool. I miss mine.

I'm fairly sure its still legal to use leaded solder here in Australia, Jaycar even sells it, even though theirs is 60% tin. Click to expand... Uh, solder has been 60% tin / 40…

I'm fairly sure its still legal to use leaded solder here in Australia, Jaycar even sells it, even though theirs is 60% tin.

Bit of a story behind this one. I found it about a year ago with a wallstreet for the dirt cheap price of $40 for both. I knew someone who was looking for a cheap laptop for her …

RoHS - making electronics hobbyists' lives hell since ... when did the EU sign up to that garbage? Click to expand... dunno about where your at, but in the states RoHS only app…

Darn! I am in the process of doing it!Let's see who can do it better Click to expand... OK! Here's my first pass at it. The Orange needs a little more saturation for …

I like the name of the mobo pic. Click to expand... You're welcome to tell me it's an inappropriate name, but I can't think of a better description for what I did to it Btw…

I like the name of the mobo pic. Motherboard-f*cked.jpg :rambo:

the new lead free junk Click to expand... I hear ya. I assembled a DMM with solder that was 99.3% Tin, and 0.7% Copper ... very hard to work! Thankfully it wasn't TOO much of a…

The difference, if measurable, between CF and SATA on a polled I/O SCSI bus on a 16 MHz m68030 is going to be so insignificant as to be noise. Click to expand... Pure speculati…

Slight update. He forgot to bring it with him when I saw him twice this week so far.... I really would like to get it before I go on the winterfest trip two weekends away so I ca…

So I had my logic board recapped by a member here on the forum and he did a fantastic job! However, I'm still experiencing the following problem: When I turn the computer on, I ge…

If you lift of a pad you need to super glue it back down on the board, let it dry. If the track is ripped use some flux and solder it back to the other side. You will need a meter …

I know that MacBench 1 will run on the SE/30. I am not sure about version 2(though it does have results for a SE.. so I bet it does) but I have both around. They are also available…

Until new pictures of your current Logic Board are posted, it's hard to say if whether you're flogging a dead horse or if it can in fact be completely revived. Click to expand..…

$20 AU wouldn't be soooo bad... but I'd still probably see the whole machine for that ... what's your US exchange rate like at the moment? I think it's something like 0.75? How do…

Testing it tomorrow.