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Useful tip for Mac SE/30 diagnostics: A cut down ATX power extension works perfectly as an SE/30 extension cable.
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 19:57
by stephen_usher
What it says on the tin...
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It makes being able to work on the motherboard for testing a doddle.
Re: Useful tip for Mac SE/30 diagnostics: A cut down ATX power extension works perfectly as an SE/30 extension cable.
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 22:09
by olivier.jan
Excellent, it’s always a pain to troubleshoot without this. Why are the yellow ICs (not the tantalum capacitors)?
Re: Useful tip for Mac SE/30 diagnostics: A cut down ATX power extension works perfectly as an SE/30 extension cable.
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 22:10
by rubber_jonnie
olivier.jan wrote: 24 Apr 2023 22:09
Excellent, it’s always a pain to troubleshoot without this. Why are the yellow ICs (not the tantalum capacitors)?
I think, based on other Mac logic boards like this, that they are resistor packs, though I'd happily be wrong.
Re: Useful tip for Mac SE/30 diagnostics: A cut down ATX power extension works perfectly as an SE/30 extension cable.
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 22:16
by stephen_usher
Yeah, I believe that they're resistor networks.
Re: Useful tip for Mac SE/30 diagnostics: A cut down ATX power extension works perfectly as an SE/30 extension cable.
Posted: 25 Apr 2023 06:57
by Tomswork
Another thing I have done on the se30 boards when the tab breaks on the ram sockets I replace them with the single simm sockets used on the atari st in pairs
Tom