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- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.181733.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 23:17:33 GMT
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- In article <1g444hINNaqp@agate.berkeley.edu>, hsiacc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Andy Chuan-Chih Hsia) writes:
- >
- > Help! My friend has a Mac SE running under System 6.0.4. When she turned
- > on the computer today, there was a grinding noise and vertical bars showed
- > up on the screen. The bars are thin-thick-thin, thin-thick-thin..etc.
- > We tried boot off a floppy, but the system doesn't even search for a floppy.
- > Basically, we're stuck with a computer with vertical bars. She mentioned
- > that the hard drive had crashed a year ago and that she had rebuilt the HD
- > a month ago. Any immediate suggestions? We think a trip down to the dealer
- > is unavoidable, but anything might help. Thanks.
-
- You're the first other person I've ever seen with this problem but it
- happened to me twice. By any chance does she have the programmer's switch
- installed? It's like a big plastic paper clip that fits on the back of the
- left-hand side of my SE/30 and somewhere similar on the SE. If it gets jammed
- in exactly the wrong position, you can see the problem you're describing.
- Take it out and all should be well again.
-
- Elliotte Rusty Harold Department of Mathematics
- elharo@m.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology
- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark, NJ 07102
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