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
>