Most likely you have a bad power supply. It's probably producing enough
power to light everything up, but not enough, or clean enough, for things to
work properly

You can find used power supplies on eBay pretty easily. I got one for $7.00
+ shipping. It's not that difficult to swap it out if you've eve been inside
an SE/30 before for other reasons (i.e. changing RAM or adding an ethernet
card). It's only a couple more screws.

-Avram



> From: Jim Watson <jwinter@ticnet.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:54:52 +0100
> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: UNIX killed my mac SE/30
> 
> My mac SE/30 has vertical lines on the screen after restarting my mac after
> hanging in unix boot.  I do not have a chime nor a happy mac..and the screen
> has 
> vertical lines about 3/16 of an inch apart.....The disk is making noise like
> it's 
> attempting to load but no soap...It did this once before (vertical lines and
> all) and 
> after a mighty struggle the mac was able to load and go..........
> 
> Does anyone know what wrong....
>