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@Jockelill I am really very impressed with your work on that machine. That LED-lit cable is stunning. Did you happen to do any overclocking or add performance enhancements?

Reduce or disable the Disk Cache in the Memory Control Panel. After that, give RAM CHARGER a try.

Incorrect. Pin-1 is marked on the PCB and on the chip itself with a dot, and it should follow this diagram: You also need to verify if the trace I've circled is broken, because it looks that way. It must not be broken.

The difference between a "SWIM" and "IWM" is very important for the SE/30. As I said in my previous post, you need a SWIM, not an IWM chip. So long as you have a SWIM chip and not an IWM chip, then it is merely a matter of figuring out how to wiring it properly to your motherboard, without...

You would need the newer SWIM chip, not IWM, because you are using an SE/30. @Kai Robinson created a PLCC-to-DIP adapter in the past, but it was never publicly released. However, you would need the opposite of that — a DIP-to-PLCC adapter. That would be rather awkward to solder on, even if it...

I had an SE/30 board which had been through some repairs in the past, but which still had unexplainable intermittent issues that did not pertain to RAM sockets or the ROM socket. Leaked fluid had eaten through at least one trace underneath the RAM sockets, and the kind fellow I asked to repair...

UV solder mask. I guess Amiga of Rochester used that to cover exposed copper traces. Not an issue that I can see. Note necessarily a bad thing at all. My board looks like this on bottom... And like this on top... Again, that's UV solder mask, used to cover exposed copper. Not an issue...

I'm afraid my eyes aren't quite as speed as needed to follow that fast moving video! o_O:LOL: About the only thing I could spot is extra flux here... But as you can see from my board photo below, it's the GND side of axial cap C2, which isn't an issue... I do see you only have one side of...

Another important consideration the Brochure gives us is this... The amount of power required is an important point of consideration. In my IIci right now, I have the Rocket 33 (as an accelerator) with 32MB of RAM on it, along side a Thunder 24/GT graphics card, Apple cache card and 32MB of...

I've never removed the floppy drive controller chip, but perhaps someone who has worked on the SE/30 "Reloaded" build would have experience testing the board prior to having all chips soldered on? @Bolle @Willj I myself have seen horizontal lines under a variety of circumstances, especially...

Because you mention having a 30Video card, I will tag its creator, @zigzagjoe , to gather his thoughts. You mention having obtained an LCD too, but you seem to have the stock analog board, so I assume you do not have the full LCD kit from ZigZag...

It's at times like this that having more than one model of the same Mac is very handy. If you only had another SE/30 or SE, you could put your motherboard in that other machine and test it. If all is well, then you could do an Analog board swap. If all is well, then you could know if indeed...

@MeTheMac You did not mention if you hear a bong when you power on. You only said the screen is dark. A bong would be a sign of life. Next, because Amiga of Rochester did the repair, it would be good to ask him his advice in light of your current symptoms. Do that just to make sure he...

@max1zzz That's fantastic news, and I can't wait to see how much better my internal drive performs with a SCSI Booster installed! These are truly exciting times in which we live. In years past we all thought certain cards like the Booster were Unobtanium to all but the most lucky, and now we...

Personally, if I had a choice between a rather hard and firm foot that sports the Apple logo (which I won't ever see in daily use), or a softer foot that more resembles the original and which I know won't scratch any desks at all, I think Kay's solution is the winner here. Here's what the 2...

@max1zzz I see you posted here about having SCSI II Booster card clones in the works. I don't have such a SCSI Booster myself, but photos I've seen show it to be a non-standard high-density 50-pin: The Radius Brochure specifies speed as being 5MB/s. BlueSCSIv2 is a 50-pin SCSI device that...

What heat setting on the FR-301 did you use?

And of course, knowing if the 30Video series cards need a 180Ω pull-up resistor mod like the Booster 2.0 does, in order to use the card in the top slot of Synchr030, would be good info too.

The reason I tagged @zigzagjoe is (1) he created the 30Video clone and (2) he has a Synchr030/S. Of course, there could be other people who have both cards, but I'm not sure who they are. People with both cards are of course the people we need to hear from.

Again, it's the clock speed, more than anything else. If you could boost that G3's clock higher, you'd see the benefits. I've got a PowerMac 9600 at the office, which originally had a stock 300MHz 603e card in it (still have that card, actually). It was later upgraded to a 400MHz G4 (7400)...