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I’ve been adventurous with electronics since age 7. Any time anything I own breaks, I try to fix it. I’ve recapped power supplies for my SE/30, and two IIfx’s. I’ve recapped logic boards for PowerBook G3 and G4. I’ve worked on my MacBook Pro’s logic board. I took one look inside the MDD...

I have Mac Plus RIFA caps that I ended up not needing. I'll contact you directly.

My Plus developed the same symptoms after I think six years of daily use (1992). It saw another three years of daily use, getting slapped on the side from time to time to bring back the video, before entering semi-retirement. At age 27, the Plus underwent treatment with...

Usedmac.com is one place to look.

Before obtaining a battery spot welder, I used copper tape with electrically conductive adhesive to rebuild my Lombard PRAM battery, which I believe is identical to the Pismo’s. There are four cells (VL2330? Please confirm before ordering). Just slit open the brown wrapper holding them all...

Almost: It looks like there’s one more to go - C1 (upper right hand of the photo, by the letter “B”).

As you say, C7 is just like the other smd 47uF caps on that board. It is at high risk for leaking, and really needs to be replaced.

Correct - it does not need replacing. A couple of mine also came with a film capacitor instead of bipolar electrolytic.

My own order of 11 (thanks to this thread) is arriving tomorrow. I only needed five, but hey - it’s motivation (and excuse) to buy more SE/30’s to refurbish!

The OS will not support USB, but there are ADB-USB adapters that will allow the use of USB keyboards and mice with an SE/30 or other Macs with ADB ports. Other devices such as USB scanners, storage devices, etc are not supported. I’ve used a Griffin iMate and a BMOW Wombat to use my USB...

Radeon 7500, I believe.

I use something similar for the same reason - I can get 1080p via a VGA-HDMI adapter, which is unobtainable via my MDD G4’s DVI.

Great info. Thanks!

On the 1uF capacitor with a lifted pad on the SE/30 board, I used a large drop of superglue gel followed by a touch of activator for an instant cure. I wanted something sturdier than hot glue, given just how tenuous the connection was. I’d have used a bodge wire if had figured out where to...

I write to CF cards from my MacBook, and use these cards as the hard drive in my legacy Macs. The drives for my SE/30’s and IIFX’s are Compact Flash cards initialized as HFS standard. One setup is CF-IDE adapter to Acard AEC-7720U SCSI-IDE converter. The other setup is CF PCMCIA adapter to...

I can’t help with a Micron user guide, but I can provide a link to Gamba’s website on the Wayback Machine: Gamba’s Site

That’s a very good point.

I use DAP Fast’N Final spackle. When it’s dry, I paint over it with a small water color paint brush. The results are adequate.

I tried that specific case with that specific Zheino msata drive back in Feb of this year after reading about success with that combo, and that case with an Adata 64GB msata drive in May of 2018. I was unsuccessful on both occasions. The drives work fine in my TiBooks. I wonder what the...

The only solid state drive I could get to work in my PowerBook Wallstreet II (PDQ) was a Compact Flash card by way of a PCMCIA card adapter in one of the expansion slots. I ended up putting a 40GB IDE hard drive in each of my PDQ’s, until I can find a better solution.