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  1. thatcactusgirl

    Mac SE SuperDrive (M5011) garbage video/corrupted sad mac/gray screen with battery damage

    I guess the fact that it got these problems just by sitting in a climate controlled closet kinda confirms that it’s caused by something that’s just being eaten away slowly, but it still bothers me that I haven’t been able to find a broken trace myself. Do you have a link to the schematics so I...
  2. thatcactusgirl

    Mac SE SuperDrive (M5011) garbage video/corrupted sad mac/gray screen with battery damage

    Fair enough, that’s something I’d sorta expected to have to do eventually but dreaded the idea of all the desoldering of the big ICs. Is there some way I could confirm that it’s a board/trace issue beforehand? I’d hate to go through that whole process just to find that the problem was with one...
  3. thatcactusgirl

    Mac SE SuperDrive (M5011) garbage video/corrupted sad mac/gray screen with battery damage

    Hi all! Sorry for the bit of a longer post, I'm a rambler 😅 Some backstory before getting into the problem: I got this Mac SE SuperDrive back in 2014 for $15. I tested it out by powering it on and it got to the "disk not found" icon, but since I didn't have any compatible mouse/keyboard and no...