Subject: Re: weird se/30 behavior
To: None <ender@macbsd.com>
From: Avram Dorfman <dorfman@est.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/02/1999 08:54:02
Perhaps you should just buy another used SE/30 instead of a new power
supply...

--On Sun, May 2, 1999 12:05 AM -0700 Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
wrote:

> Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>> Colin,
>> 
>> I asked one of the best Apple II (and Mac) hardware gurus I know
>> (Harold Hislop) and he stated:
>> 
>> The power supply is failing (Likely a failing filter capacitor on the
>> +5 output line). (not too hard to fix, but dangerous (ALL switching
>> power supplies can be dangerous to work on))
> 
> doh!  how annoying...  i guess i'll have to get it replaced.  of course,
> that'll probably cost more than the machine did in the first place.  well,
> i suppose we'll just have to see how long it lasts :-(
> 
>> Hope this might help you.
> 
> yes, it does.
> 
> thanks!!!
> 
> colin
>