Dear Compact Macs: Ok, well, I have a laundry list of problems I wish to seek help with. I recently received a mac SE/30 MB (thanks snook!) and upgraded my SE FDHD. However, when I boot up it says
the floppy in the external drive is unreadable. Do you want to initialize this floppy? I don't have an external floppy drive connected. so I click eject, and then it says it again, so I hit eject... forever. I found this problem and its solution on the Mac SE Support pages. Here is the Answer they give: This was a very common problem with SE logic boards. It's caused by an RC filter that is shorting out. It's a 20-pin DIP package between the internal and external floppy drive connectors. The Apple part number is 115-0002. If you don't want to use the external port, an easy no-cost fix is to just remove the damaged component. If you want the external port to work, you'll have to replace the part. So, sounds good, but, I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this and perhaps found a different/better solution or if they have had the same problem and can verify that this works? This is an SE/30 MB, not an SE one. I think that the part he is talking about is the yellow chip between the internet floppy connecter and the outside ports, but there are 2 other yellow chips next to the SCSI connecter that are possibilities, can anyone verify the chip that controls the external floppy drive?. Is the solution suggested to clip the chip off, or do I need to do some special soldering? Ok, next problem On the same machine, the screen has two problems. Number 1, the monitor shakes a little while on. More than normal I mean (all SE monitors I have seen seemed to shake a little but this is excessive). it flickers especially when reading and writing to the SCSI HDD or a floppy. Problem number 2, the screen is dark, even with brightness all the way up it is not as bright as my other SEs. It is usable, I just hope there is an easy way to increase the brightness. I also mention it because I think it may be related to problem 1. I did my homework on this one too and the best I could find is that I may have to solder something on the analog board. Does anybody have any more advise for me? Ok, one more problem. I have a different Mac SE that has a cracked screen tube. the glass has broken near where it connects to the vertical board. I have a mac 512 that has a nice working screen. Are the two compatible? Could I swap out the CRT from the mac 512 into the SE? Thank you once again for all the help the members of the list have already given me. The more I know the more I can solve problems for others instead of trying to fix them for myself. Skipp -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
