As I was happily installing some RAM in my very understanding SE 30 there was a little snap and one of those little cap shaped transistor things fell off the motherboard, it was in position C1, since I now get tight horizontal stripes and a pleasant chiming sound when I start up I assume it was a fairly important thing....The last time I soldered anything was around the last time time I ironed anything (i.e. I don't think I ever have) SO any tips from more experienced solderers...
As a bit of background I've had this SE 30 for about six weeks now, it cost me $30 and I've loved having it, I've put in an Ethernet card, hooked it up to my G4 (almost, it sees the G4, the G4 can't mount the compact), attached an external hard drive (well, almost), installed a new 1Gb hard drive, put in more RAM (see above), upgraded the system software, attached my zip drive, booted from the zip drive and rediscovered stuff on all the pre 1.4 mb floppies I had lying around...And thanks to this list I've learned a lot about computers, SCSI, formatting hard drives, economically sized software and a load of other stuff...now I can't say this makes me actually useful but I've had fun. Dan -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
