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- From: cz@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Christopher R. Zach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Mac Plus Power supply SOLVED
- Summary: Boy, that was fun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.005837.23464@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:58:37 GMT
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- Lines: 31
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- Well, it looks like I have finally fixed that power supply problem that I was
- having with my Mac Plus after upgrading it's memory. Detalied description
- follows...
-
- After swapping the power supply logic board with one from a 512K Mac, the
- Plus motherboard gave the same problems (power supply would cycle). I then
- hooked up an external 400K floppy to the Plus motherboard, and tried again.
- This time, the system came up without cycling. The screen wouldn't come up,
- but when I hooked the SCSI drive up to the motherboard, the system accessed
- the SCSI drive and "Booted" the system. Still no display, though.
-
- Well, this was interesting. Swapped the 512K motherboard back in, and that
- came up, so this eliminated the power supply board and monitor. Hm...
- Maybe the problem is that the Plus is not drawing ENOUGH power due to a
- failure in some circuit on the motherboard to energise the video display.
- A close check of the motherboard revealed a nick where my pliers slipped as
- I cut the R8 resistor. Hm... I then sanded the insulation off the PCB
- insulation, soldered a bridge wire around the nick, and the system came up.
- This was good. A quick adjustment of the PS to get me up to 5.03 volts, and
- everything was back to normal.
-
- Now this leaves me with a friend's Mac 512K that works, but I don't need to
- cannibalize it for parts. My new question is: What can one do with a Mac 512K?
- Is there enough memory for it to run most applications, can one put a Lisa
- hard drive on the floppy controller, can one buy a turbo motherboard and use
- the 512K ROMS? Is it worth the powder to blow it to hell, and does it run
- AppleTalk? I wouldn't mind having a spare Mac around, but not if it's useless.
-
- Thanks for the help
-
- CZ
-