You appear to be confirming what I had guessed before. Namely, that you did NOT have this screen focus problem when you first had your SE/30 operational, prior to any motherboard …

Gary, Can you post a photo of the screen so we can make determine whether this is spot on to what Trag said? In the mean time, I'll verify this with my own SE/30, even if it's no…

Thanks JDW for reply: To simply my request for answer re focus problem, I didn't state full story. My SE 30 motherboard failed in May, and I purchased a used replacement from "Ne…

Hey, my iMac G4 gave up the ghost for some reason and I'm not about to fix it right now so I'm putting the 80GB drive inside my quicksilver which already has 2 hard drives. I thoug…

Your advice was spot on! I removed the battery and actually booted without it once and then put the battery back in and booted again. It booted fine both times. This one has a n…

Pulling the logic board and replacing caps should not affect your screen focus at all. I should know since I have yanked out my motherboard and put it back in dozens of times with…

After excellent dealings with Trag, I replaced (paid technician) to have caps replaced with tantalums. Fixed problem, but now focus is off a bit - but too uncomfortable to view. T…

Can you double check whether you get a mouse arrow in the top left-hand corner of the screen or if you even get a startup tone when you turn it on? Another culprit could be that t…

I agree with JDW. Worst case, a new wire to replace the trace would be installed if the original pads and trace are deteriorated beyond salvaging. Are you going to perform the re…

Should be fixed now...

I'm quoting JDW from an older post he had on AppleFritter: "I have also read about replacing the bourns chip (RP2), but I don't have one handy and I honestly do not see the logic …

After examining your photos, it is clear that your analog board is in good shape. But it is also clear your motherboard is in bad shape, especially in the area of C9. You not onl…

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TheNixer, It sounds like you have a problem with the network filter (RP2) on the SE/30 logic board. So you are correct. Referring this info to the website you linked in your las…

Here are some pictures of the boards and the ram. Let me know what you think. The last two pics look like some of the caps are bad. http://yfrog.com/izpc27011550j http://yfrog.co…

I'm wondering if I'm out of luck on this SE/30. It's a liberation that I knew didn't work but I thought I'd try my luck anyway. The great SE/30 repair reference (http://www.biwa.…

First thought: mosey over to cubeowner.com and browse the video card forum. Second, that's the way a GPU that's been running hot seems to die. Unless you had a fan on that 7500, it…

I have experienced SimasiMac on multiple SE/30 logic boards. SimasiMac in its truest form is a set of HORIZONTAL bars that are very clean with no stray pixels here and there. The…

SemperFi94, THAT is a classic symptom of what is called "Simasimac", or "Zebra-like pattern". I refer you to the following link below: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/rep…

Hello I have an old Mac SE/30 that, like the title says, won't boot properly. The guy I got it from said it was working fine the week before I got it but he was freeing up space on…

If you prefer a step by step guide, on paper in front of you, sure. But there's also http://68kmla.org/files/classicmac2.pdf

I don't care about the book, but I would like a complete listing of the BASIC code mentioned in it for that Macintosh Diagnostic. It would be fun to run it and see what happens. …

Anybody know if this book is of any value for the average compact Mac enthusiast?

Well, Bunson has got me a-thinkin about a tinker with my G4 Cube again, with his reference to dual G4/500MHz cards in a Cube. I can get one of these shipped on eBay right now for a…