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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Two SE/30 Boards - memory woes.Regardless of the claims made about the metal clip style ROM socket, I would take a very close look. One of my SE/30 machines kept...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Can anyone help evaluate these CPU upgrades?.Sorry, forget this one:
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Recapped SE/30 with No Video.Please don't take this the wrong way, but if your bench skills are limited it's much healthier (in the physical sense) to not poke...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Recapped SE/30 with No Video.It could mean just about anything (motherboard, cabling, something on the analog board), but first step is to find out if heater voltage...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Can anyone help evaluate these CPU upgrades?.Thanks very much for bringing clarity to the situation! The really weird part is that I have no recollection of ever owning an Old...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Can anyone help evaluate these CPU upgrades?.The Sonnet G3 was in my long-defunct Motorola Starmax system. From memory, that was not a NuBus machine. The others all have the same...
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VOver years of swap meets and hamfests I've accumulated a pile of slotted processor upgrades for G3 era Macs. Unfortunately I do not...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Recapped SE/30 with No Video.I can't tell from the available diagrams, but some video displays powered the CRT filament from a winding on the flyback transformer...
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Remove and socket SE/30 CPU?.I had it on 3 of 4. Everything cleared fine except for that one pin. I'm just happy that the system worked afterwards!
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Vvtgearhead replied to the thread Remove and socket SE/30 CPU?.I finally screwed up my courage and took the Hakko to my SE/30 motherboard. Everything went reasonably well, but there was one stinker...
