Bought this PC to recondition (I have an affinity for ancient junk like this.)
The PC keeps bootlooping in POST and constantly returns "Real Time Clock Failed" even with a fresh CMOS battery. Also was extremely touchy with memory.
Opened up the case, and was greeted with wonderful fishy smell and little lint-filled puddles surrounding several SMT lytics on the board.
SMT lytics from the early 1990's were horrible. Macintoshes from this era often succumb to blown SMT lytics (I should know, I owned several Macs and each and every one of them, save for a Quadra 605, had a number of blown SMT lytics at the end of their lives). Worst part is, it is extremely difficult to repair a board which uses SMT lytics. Especially for those of us who don't have expensive solder-stations.
Anyway I am probably just going to replace the board with a more or less standard baby AT board (the case, surprise surprise, actually is a standard AT affair), and when I have time/motivation I'll try my hand at repairing this freaky old board.
The PC keeps bootlooping in POST and constantly returns "Real Time Clock Failed" even with a fresh CMOS battery. Also was extremely touchy with memory.
Opened up the case, and was greeted with wonderful fishy smell and little lint-filled puddles surrounding several SMT lytics on the board.
SMT lytics from the early 1990's were horrible. Macintoshes from this era often succumb to blown SMT lytics (I should know, I owned several Macs and each and every one of them, save for a Quadra 605, had a number of blown SMT lytics at the end of their lives). Worst part is, it is extremely difficult to repair a board which uses SMT lytics. Especially for those of us who don't have expensive solder-stations.
Anyway I am probably just going to replace the board with a more or less standard baby AT board (the case, surprise surprise, actually is a standard AT affair), and when I have time/motivation I'll try my hand at repairing this freaky old board.