My latest acquisition came in today, a Mac IIci, that I wanted to use as an OS 6.08
machine with a Daystar Turbo 040 (68040/33) accelerator. Anyway after cleaning up the
system and installing the OS I put the card in and loaded the drivers and all was fine
(very fast booting). After about 15 minutes I had to reboot for driver update and the
system would just bomb during boot (about where the control panel for the Daystar card
would want to load). I took the card out and notice there was a capacitor missing on the
back with a nasty looking black burn mark. So I started looking around inside for the burn
metal part and notice I did not smell or see smoke or little capacitor parts (its a
surface mount with no numbers on it). Doing a little digging in my picture archive I
verified that the card which I have never used before (which is why I wanted a IIci since
it works in that model) was sent to me in this condition.
So what I want to know is how the thing functioned at all without the cap (burnt carbon
acted as a capacitor in some way)? and what caused it to stop working.
If anybody have an original Daystar Turbo 040 33Mhz card with the cache on a separate
board could you let me know (if possible) what value C54 s supposed to be? The cap looks
to be tied into one or two legs of the oscillator chip that controls the CPU (Ecliptek
EC1100 16.667Mhz 93-10).
I kind of want this working again since it will be a long time before I find another one
at a great price.
Thanks
TZ