Yet another battery bombed SE/30

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zoo

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Jan 18, 2025
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I'm gutted. Ad said working order but when I got there it was dead.... The seller said, "It worked last time I started it, 7 years ago". Lol.

So I made a bid for equivalent of USD50, thinking I could either fix it or have some spares. But it is heartbreaking to see... I took out the processor and the socketed chip, processor seems fine but the chip is missing actual pins :) Anyone selling a motherboard? :)

Shit.
 

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Kai Robinson

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There are SE/30 Reloaded boards in the wild! I know someone here was selling some as part of a small run, too.
 

Volvo242GT

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I'm gutted. Ad said working order but when I got there it was dead.... The seller said, "It worked last time I started it, 7 years ago". Lol.

So I made a bid for equivalent of USD50, thinking I could either fix it or have some spares. But it is heartbreaking to see... I took out the processor and the socketed chip, processor seems fine but the chip is missing actual pins :) Anyone selling a motherboard? :)

Shit.
Looks familiar...

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One of the machines I received in my 2012 haul. It would power on, but just show a checkerboard screen. Wound up taking another SE/30's board and swapping it in, since the machine that this board was in had a nicer bezel, etc.
 

zoo

New Tinkerer
Jan 18, 2025
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There are SE/30 Reloaded boards in the wild! I know someone here was selling some as part of a small run, too.
It is kind of out of my comfort zone, equipment and skill wise. But who knows... At least I will probably work on this board as a practice project until I find a working replacement.