Here is how the motherboard looked after I first pulled it from the computer

This site isn't too much of a vintage Mac place, so... you may be asking in the wrong place.

If this was an SE/30, I believe that you can now get a replacement PCB that you can solder chips from your original board onto, but... I doubt the Classic II has generated anywhere near the retro interest for that kind of thing.

And yes, exploding batteries are basically destroying... most... beige Macs that aren't in the hands of collectors/enthusiasts at this point. Any machine that's been sitting for 15+ years without the battery having been taken out... probably has an exploded battery and this kind of corrosion. 🙁

VivienM wrote on 2024-07-07, 23:45:

This site isn't too much of a vintage Mac place, so... you may be asking in the wrong place.

If this was an SE/30, I believe that you can now get a replacement PCB that you can solder chips from your original board onto, but... I doubt the Classic II has generated anywhere near the retro interest for that kind of thing.

And yes, exploding batteries are basically destroying... most... beige Macs that aren't in the hands of collectors/enthusiasts at this point. Any machine that's been sitting for 15+ years without the battery having been taken out... probably has an exploded battery and this kind of corrosion. 🙁

Yep it's a really unfortunate situation. Would you have any idea what sites I should try?
I'm very new to the vintage Mac side of things so I thought I'd try here first.
And I did see that for the SE/30, but I also doubt either classics have had that level of dedication given to them.

BurntOutElectronics wrote on 2024-07-08, 00:26:

Yep it's a really unfortunate situation. Would you have any idea what sites I should try? I'm very new to the vintage Mac side o […]
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VivienM wrote on 2024-07-07, 23:45:

This site isn't too much of a vintage Mac place, so... you may be asking in the wrong place.

If this was an SE/30, I believe that you can now get a replacement PCB that you can solder chips from your original board onto, but... I doubt the Classic II has generated anywhere near the retro interest for that kind of thing.

And yes, exploding batteries are basically destroying... most... beige Macs that aren't in the hands of collectors/enthusiasts at this point. Any machine that's been sitting for 15+ years without the battery having been taken out... probably has an exploded battery and this kind of corrosion. 🙁

Yep it's a really unfortunate situation. Would you have any idea what sites I should try?
I'm very new to the vintage Mac side of things so I thought I'd try here first.
And I did see that for the SE/30, but I also doubt either classics have had that level of dedication given to them.

Hmmm... There's r/VintageApple on Reddit, there are some other vintage Mac forums too, there are vintage Mac YouTubers (e.g. Mac84), but... I don't have much else to suggest. My vintage Macs are G4s. Very different world from beige Macs. (As a random aside, if you have any interest in vintage Macs, pick up a Power Mac G4 MDD now while they are still fairly plentiful...)

Honestly, it's a challenging world for beige Macs - between exploding batteries, bad capacitors, brittle plastics, etc, it's increasingly difficult to find healthy beige Macs. Rather ironic, since things like FloppyEmus and BlueSCSIs have opened up a lot of possibilities for vintage beige Macs...