[comp.sys.mac] Mac SE hardware problem?

wade@sdacs.UUCP (07/09/87)

I have recently purchased a new Mac SE. (I have been using a Plus at work 
for a year or so)  I have a small problem with the SE, and I would like to
get some feedback from the net:

The minute I turned the machine on I noticed an annoying problem with 
the display. The screen quivers (shivers, wiggles, flickers, whatever). Not
dramatically, but noticably.  The problem is at first most noticable in the 
upper left corner of the screen near the menu bar, but if you look closely,
opening windows and looking at icons in other locations, it appears to be 
happening all over the display. Occasionally the display will "wiggle" a 
little more intensely.

My Mac+, and the other Mac+ and 512e machines in the office, do not display 
this behavior. It is very annoying. The problem is that when I took the machine
back in to the dealer, the day after I bought it, he looked at it and said
"oh that looks pretty normal to me". In fact, the display model was doing 
the same thing. He was sympathetic enough to allow me to exchange my machine
for another one. Great, I thought. Not so. The new one does the same thing.
(That's 3 for 3).

My questions to the net: 

1. Do you have an SE (or more than one)?

2. Does the display flicker or wiggle slightly but nonetheless abnormally?
  (My Mac+ display is as steady as a sheet of paper on a desktop :)

3. If so, what have you done about the problem (exchange, adjustment, 
   complain..)?

4. Did the remedy in #3 help at all?


If you are an SE owner please take a minute to reply, and I will summarize
the results. I really would like to know if I am just unlucky or if this
is something we all have to live with.

Thanks,

Wade S. Blomgren                       ...sdcsvax!sdacs!wade  or
UCSD Academic Computing                wade%sdacs@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
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