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Lol, this gave me bigfoot video vibes for some reason...legend of the mysterious laptop hoard...err, collector :)

Reloaded board completed and fully-operational...all Snooper tests passed! I already love this thing... From battery-bomb victim to a new lease on life. But...what's better than an SE/30? An SE/40! I guess it's a total Bolle-box now :) Also, I only had to pull the customs from one...

Signs of life! The reloaded board actually booted on the first try: At first I was only getting audio out of the headphone jack. After replacing the op-amp at UA9, I got a strong chime from the speaker. Now to populate the rest of the board and run some diagnostics...

JLCPCB...and yes, I had them populate the backsides.

Spent days going over the SE/30 board and couldn't make it happy...time for plan B:

Is the Z85C3008VEG compatible with UG12 on the SE/30?

Working on the mildly-bombed SE/30 board...I removed the battery holder and buzzed out a bunch of stuff before attempting to boot, and found and fixed a few broken traces. I then installed new caps, replaced the missing Y1 and UD1, installed RAM and ROM and fired it up. I got a chime followed...

probably selling the ball separately for $99 :ROFLMAO: Seriously though, M2706's are all over ebay for around $20-$25 shipped.

Not me. Most of those items were already in that machine when I inherited it. Just fortunate.

I haven't read the entire thread, but it was most likely 40 volume developer, which is 12% H2O2. That's the stuff I use and see most other people use, at least those that live somewhere where it's available.

Ok, I've been saving these two bombed SE/30's for last. I don't know if that was saving the best for last, or just putting off the most potential frustration :) Hopefully I can get at least one working machine out of them. Anyways, here they are: The analog boards, PSUs, and CRTs all...

Completely silent and stylish Macintosh cooling 🙃:

Finally got the ethernet sorted in my 040 IIci so it could talk to its twin 😁

The Plus was kind of like the Color Classic in that it already worked somewhat, but was just really rusty and dirty. It would boot to the ? and off a FloppyEMU, but not from SCSI or a real floppy. It got the full recap treatment...analog board, logic board, and floppy. The floppy was also...

I guess my project will be to keep working through this pile of compacts I got from another forum member back in December...just finished up the CC, so moving on the Plus next! https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tinkering-with-compacts-all-winter.3157/

Connected from my newly-working Color Classic using BlueSCSI DaynaPort emulation :)

I'm running a Turbo040, 128MB LB RAM, 128MB Stage II Rocket, RasterOps Paintboard Prism GT, and Farallon NIC in my IIci with the original Astec PSU (recapped), and everything is stable...no signs of a warp core breach. So, while I can't answer your video card compatibility question, I have...

I replaced the FPU on the ThunderCachePro and stability improved, but still had the occasional nondeterministic crash. Then I found the reason that MicroMac puts those fancy gold stickers on all of their CPUs and FPUs: That's a 33Mhz part on a 50Mhz accelerator 😬. I swapped in a real 50Mhz...

It took some tinkering and running in circles, but I finally got this 50Mhz ThunderCachePro working in the Color Classic: When it didn't work on the first try, I moved it to my LCII so I would have at least some access to the card while it was running. Just like in the CC, it was chiming...

I don't have any experience troubleshooting or repairing mine so far (knock on wood), but I can confirm that it supports 128MB of RAM: Is there any visible damage or corrosion on either card? I did have another accelerator where leaky caps had eaten a couple of the RAM's data lines, but I...