kyt@cs.columbia.edu (Kok-Yong Tan) (04/11/91)
I have a friend whose Mac Plus has begun to scrunch up the picture on the screen. It keeps blacking out the top and bottom quarter of the screen and then squeezes the picture into an hourglass figure in the remaining lighted area. I'm suspecting flyback transformer solder joint problems. Am I right? Also, the Rodime 45 Meg hard drive just died so that no icon is visible and I get a question mark on startup. I can only boot off and use the floppy drive. SUM II and MacTools Deluxe don't work because no "damaged drive" shows up to be fixed. Is there any hope for it? There seems to be a predominantly greater percentage of Mac hard drives failing than, say, PC hard drives failing. Is this true or just my imagination? If true, anyone want to venture a guess as to the reason? -- =============================================================================== Kok-Yong Tan can be reached at: | "Oscularis fundamentum." InterNet: kyt@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | - Annoyed Latin scholar. CompuServe: 75046,256 | "Labra lege." America Online: lallang | - George Bush, if he were Caesar Ma Bell: (212) 860-3920 | Everything that can possibly be US Snail: Don't bother. | disclaimed is hereby disclaimed. ===============================================================================