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So, first of all, my sincere gratitude and appreciation to @JDW for his support, we’re on the same time zone, we’re both enjoying some days off (golden week), so our exchanges can be quick. And of course thanks to @Androda for giving his feedback and sharing his expertise on this unfortunate...

So, I concluded both Picos are dead. Maybe the temperature for the desoldering tip was too high (I use 350 for most of the jobs, idea is to have a quick hot spot rather than persisting too long and heat up the entire nearby area), or maybe I inadvertently shorted with my own fingers some pins...

It reminds me of when my beloved Ti book 667 DVI who had driven me through my final years at university and beyond became obsolete. As I replaced it with a MacBook, I decided to donate it for free to a no profit youth organization, who could have still used it for basic administrative stuff (in...

Of course I would be very curious to know what caused the issue. Above all, I would like to know whether sourcing a new Pico W would suffice or if chances are that the board is also fried. As for the root causes, I can only make speculations: - ESD: a possibility, unlikely, but it is a...

It’s a very nice lot, it may easily fetch serious money (above 1k USD, for sure). My suggestion? Don’t trust your brain, trust your heart: keep it, it’s part of your life. Else, eBay. If you look out for cash and have some time to spare, selling each item separately may even grant you higher...

Thanks for your support @JDW, I appreciate it. Today I squandered another hour and half for desoldering the PicoW, not the easiest of the jobs, as the fit is very tight and removing all the solder is very tricky. Now I am twice as lost as I was before, though. The Pico W seems to be dead...

I’d love to help, but indeed I don’t have any spare time for it. I will follow your posts with special attention, though, keep on working on it, “The reward is in the journey“!

In fact, I did the same as you did, I swapped the Pico with a Pico W, it just worked fine. After making the mod for the sleep freeze and before testing the unit I upgraded the firmware to the latest one. Today I even tried to downgrade it again. Fundamentally, I now have the same hardware, the...

No, it would. With SCSI2SD unit I have 4 devices ID=0,1,2,3 on the internal SCSI connector, plus a real MO drive (ID=5) on the external connector. Everything works. If I attempt the same with the BlueSCSI, neither the internal devices nor the external one are recognised. If I unplug the...

Back at the time, I used to do a lot of programming in Think Pascal for solving scientific and engineering problems. Loved every bit of it.

So, today I tried to figure out why the modified BlueSCSI board is no longer working. At first, I suspected the hand-made SCSI cable was the culprit, as the modification to the board was looking neat. In fact, I could identify one line that was maybe a little loose at the connector. But...

Good to know you you have evidence the mods work fine. I will check it thoroughly again, including the scsi cable, maybe some contact in the connector got loose with all the push and pull…

Maybe I’m missing something, but the proposed mods to the board have kind of bricked the unit, which is no longer recognized during the boot phase. Firmware successfully updated to the latest release, LOG.TXT reading all checks OK. D3 flashes for a while during the boot step, but then nothing...

Good to know, thanks, I will surely try this fix.

@JDW My pleasure to help. In the linked, impromptu video I document the following facts: - the 12V rail (and 5V, too) goes automatically alive during the boot phase - when the machine is set on sleep, the voltage is shut off and remains off until the next attempt to access the internal...

So, non lit Portable, 5 Mb ram, System 7.1.1. BlueSCSI v2 Wi-Fi (on). If I put it on sleep, it then crashes all the times. By the way, the speaker pops, but just during the boot sequence. If I boot from a floppy with System 6.0.7, I can put it on sleep and it wakes up flawlessly. Will try and...

I have fabricated a hand made internal adapter for the Portable which feeds 12 V and 5 V for a standard full size molex connector. The pinout is available in the resource section of this forum. With SCSI2SD I had the same issue, the machine would crash upon waking up 99% of the times. With...

Hello, thanks for the kind offer. I am based in Japan (Nagoya), so it would indeed make little sense shipping from US. I will buy it from AliExpress, it’s indeed cheap. Thanks again!

Well done! If you still have too much tubing around, I will be glad to purchase part of it.

Many years ago I pulled a bunch of Apple II GS out of a flooded container at a recycling site. They were dismissed machines from a nearby US military base. I literally bought them by the weight. Amazingly enough, though, they were all still in working conditions, despite the water and the rust...