hi gary, i'm new to the list.
i've got a new-to-me se/30. when i got it (from the side of the road!), it would not boot from the hard drive. the drive itself usually would not even spin up. i coaxed it into spinning up by shaking the se/30 in a twisting motion on the desk surface during startup. placing the se/30 on a sheet of paper will prevent the little rubber feet from doing their job of sticking to the desk. voila! my se/30 booted into system 7.5. people throw out the darnedest things... however, it still would experience 'sticktion' half the time at boot up. i solved that problem by oiling the spindle. not recommended, i know, but these old drives have exposed mechanical parts that allow this kind of remedy without much risk of contaminating the inner platter chamber. first remove the hard drive from your se/30. then remove the electronics board. my drive is an 80MB quantum number 94-something... 6 screws did the trick. gently pull off the three ribbon cable headers (which connect the board to the innards). you can now lift out the board. beneath you will likely see a large round brass coloured plate covering the motor spindle. remove the 4 tiny screws that hold it in place. beneath it you will see a large flat flywheel. near the centre you should see a couple of holes that give you just enough access to the outer spindle bearing. this is where you put the oil. carefully! i used duralube. it's a great penetrating oil. i applied just a couple of drops through the holes, using the little plastic tube that came with the can of duralube. DO NOT use wd-40. contrary to popular opinion, it is not a lubricant, but rather a cleaning solvent. using this on your drive will likely ruin the bearing. spin the flywheel by hand for several minutes. put it all back together and see what you get. i recommend letting the drive run for 10 minutes or more to let the oil work its way in. you may need to do this again, but if it still doesn't work after a couple of tries, chances are you'll have to live with the sticktion. more oil will contaminte the platters and trash the drive. another problem my drive encountered was this: even though it would spin up, often it would not be recognised. i could hear the drive trying to seek, but it would fail. this i fixed by putting the drive in the freezer for 10 minutes, then plugging it back into the se/30 and powering up while still cold. this may also seem unusual, but it works. be careful, if the air is too humid, the cold drive will drip with condensation and risk damage or electrical shock. seem crazy? well, i'm writing this email using my oiled and frozen se/30. good luck. by the way, what does a working se/30 go for these days? jj This one time, at band camp, Gary Kitchen said: > I messed around with the 512k and discovered it has 2 problems. The hard > drive does not spin up, and the screen will not light up either, even if you > wait a few minutes and the contrast has been turned up. Also, the machine > has no floppy drive in it. So it may just be a write-off. > My working SE is OK, but I still need to get a SuperDrive & ROMs, or a whole > Superdrive MB. Rather than go through all these contortions, I would like to > know if any of you have a good SE/30 for sale? Doesn't have to have any mods > on it, I can add things like RAM, better HD, etc. but of course nice if it's > already there! Please let me know if any of you have one, I'm interested! > That way I will have an SE and an SE/30 and I can set them up with Appletalk > together. Thanks! > > 'Til next time, > Gary > > -- > 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> > --> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > -- 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> --> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
