Recent content by vtgearhead

Should I be able to boot an LC475 with no CMOS battery installed in the system? I've just acquired one that refuses to start without a battery and do not believe that's the expected behavior. If I'm correct in that assumption, any idea where to start troubleshooting? (Apologies - I had...

Are you using heat sink compound with this arrangement or staying with tape?

Heh. My LC II did the same thing - wild squealing that changed with pressure in the left rear of the board. A recap later all was good. I think I lucked out and caught it before too much damage had been done.

Thanks! I have a 2-port MX500 as well.

No photo found, but it does sound like a neat tool!

That's exactly what I had in mind.

The combination of a transparent SE/30 case with a "stand up" version of Joe's board would be awesome.

The out-of-focus photo is intended to be representative of the parts you might find in the kit. With the number of different devices they support it would be impractical in the extreme to provide photos of the exact kit.

Not sure where you looked, but Console5.com has both the cap listing and pre-made kits:

I'm not an expert on switching power supplies, but many of them require that all rails be loaded in order to guarantee proper regulation. Testing under no-load conditions may well show bogus values. If you don't want to take any chances of damaging the motherboard you'll need to connect a...

Sorry to be Captain Obvious, but you're not by any chance measuring the voltages under no-load conditions (disconnected from main board)?

I just posted about a similar problem on the 68k Mac OS thread. For whatever reason the Apple disk setup utilities show a grayed out 'UPDATE' button when pointed at a volume with the Lido driver - regardless of where I boot from.

I'm using a ZuluSCSI Pico slim on one of my SE/30s. The Zulu firmware complains about one of the images having a LIDO SCSI driver and warns of potential problems. But, regardless of how I try to come at it I'm unable to 'UPDATE' (replace the SCSI driver) on that volume. I know that one cannot...

Is there any chance you damaged an adjacent component or connection when peeling away the hot-melt glue to remove caps?

There's a special place in Hades for eBay sellers who lie about or obfuscate their location. I've reported several to eBay who, wait for it, did absolutely nothing about the situation. My "favorite" was a location of "Chino, CA" - aka Shenzen.