Ha! my old thread bounced back to near the top!

At first glance my board looked clean albeit dusty. When I removed the board and dusted it off and held it to the bright light I could then see crusty deposits around the solder joints on the sound chips and other chips adjacent to the Caps. It is almost like the electrolyte wicks, fumes, and then corrodes the solder. I'm not sure if it is the degraded capacitance or if it is the corrosion of the solder contacts that is responsible but neither are good.

The guy who sells the surface mount tantalum capacitors on this board is a very good deal. If things ever slow down for me enough I will probably do the same for my SE/30. As for resoldering, one of those claw type soldering irons is very useful to have.

My IIci is still running great. I found it unexpectedly running the other day after a power outage surge when coming back on must have been enough to fire it up. The Lunatic Fringe AD screensaver module was running...

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There is also a slight chance that the sound output port is dirty. I'm pretty sure that there is a little switch inside of it that turns off the internal speaker when you plug something into it.

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That's more likely to be true than you think. My LC's headphone port will nearly always "stick" after removing headphones that have been plugged in for a while. Sound however, is still there, but the Mac still thinks that a headset is present. Poking around in the jack with a toothpick usually fixes the problem, which is most likey a bent contact.