nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (einsturzende neubaten) (03/10/91)
Subject line says it all. Here are the specifics. 1989 SE/30 running 6.0.5, loads of things, running SingleShare at the time, connected into AppleTalk network via PhoneNET connectors. I come back home, and bingo, it's screen is grey- with a funny sort of problem. I turn it off, then on again. No "bong" noise- uhoh. HD spins up to speed, light flashes a little, but no go. Pressing restart button on side does nothing- screen flickers, but odd, static-filled screen comes up. Restart from floppy unsuccessful. I realize that this is a severe hardware problem, but I'm not so sure that I understand how everything could work so right, yet not work at all. Anyone have any ideas? Is this a fried Mac? Power Supply must be fine, right? Screen OK. Oh, I'd much rather get "Sad Mac" codes, to tell the truth. Oh, well. I thought I'd share this with y'all. I'll take it in to the dealer, but I was wondering if anyone had ever seen anything like it. :-( <- this is me. 'later. -- | Beep Beep Beavers * WFNX 101.7 * Words like violence/ Break the silence/ | | Come crashing in/ Into my little world.-DM * I KNOW that it's Einstuerzende | | Neubauten * Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for fabulous prizes! | | Disclaimer: The U. of C. has NO control over what I say, only over me. ;^) |
werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) (03/11/91)
> Pressing restart button on side does nothing- screen flickers, but > odd, static-filled screen comes up. Restart from floppy unsuccessful. I have just such an SE-30 on my desktop (well, it kept doing that off and on until earlier this week) and I noticed that wiggling a certain cable inside the Mac seems to make the problem go away - though if it stays away is an open question still. So, the recommended procedure (according to my experience) is to open up your SE-30 and wiggle the cables (in my case it seems that the power cable to the hard disk needed to be bent away from the cage of the power-supply .... Good Luck, Mr. "Beep Beep Beavers" or "Einstuerzende Neubauten" or whoever you are ... (if you think that I think that I'd prefer being provided a first or even fictitious name, to address myself to, you are right! btw, you even misspelled "Einstuerzende Neubauten" in your FROM-header 1/2 :-) -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- | Internet: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu | | werner@cs.utexas.edu | | BITnet: werner@UTXVM | | UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- From the business pages of Toronto's National Newspaper: "Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six monts."