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- From: majors@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Majors)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Mac+ intermittent on/off screen; bad clock
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.152111.8419@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:21:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep2.152111.8419
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I have a Macintosh Plus whose screen has started to go black. It
- usually boots up black. I've been able to get it to go
- on, or flicker on temporarily by moving the SCSI cable, or tilting
- the monitor/cpu about 45 degrees to either side, or by _lightly_
- torqueing the unit, or by lightly tapping on the (right) side of it,
- or by inserting a disc, or, as I've recently discovered, by simply
- waiting for maybe 5 minutes, although if the unit gets moved (if
- the table it sits on moves much), it will sometimes retreat to black.
- I've been told it might be a bad solder joint, and that I could have
- a technician check the solder on the board and put some new solder on.
- A couple of other things that have occured: the clock seems to change
- randomly from day to day, and when I'm in a program, the warning beep
- (i.e., accompanying dialog boxes like "...do you want to save?") is
- very weak, although from the control panel (I'm running 6.0.5), the
- beep is fine. I'm running with 2MB, and memory is not a problem for the
- programs I run, like Excel. Any ideas, please reply direct. thanks
- -Bob majors@u.washington.edu
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