Matthew S. Carpenter wrote:
My old 6100 started crashing real hard... would get these four dots
up in the top corner and no reset other than power it down, power it
up or use reset in the back...
Anyway, this was when I was still in Junior high... so I took it to
school to get help from the network admin there.... but when I was
fighting with the door whille holding the computer I lost hold it
slipped... I tried to grab it but still ended up dropping it about a
foot... Anyway when I brought it to the lab upstairs I couldn't get
the damn thing to glitch out...Gad, it made me look like an ass.
So I went home and it started doing it again a few months later...
read on lowendmac about heat issues and remembere reading stories
about people fixing Apple III's by dropping them to reseat chips that
came loose due to the heat problems in it causing the board to flex
enough to have the chips kinda wedged out of place....
so with that I got an idea... I popped it open and removed reseated
every single thing that was socketed in it... SCSI cables, RAM, ROM,
Cashe, Power... just every thing. presto chango problems went away.
anyway, it comes back once in a while... Was bloody annoying back
when I didn't know what the hell was going on... And this symptom is
not documented anywhere.
-Matthew S. Carpenter
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Obviously though, I don't read far enough. If that doesn't fix it,
you're probably better off no screwing aroudn with it... but I
woudln't bother getting another 6100... There are nicer computers out
there... just try to find one that isn't know to have so many problems
that has a PDS slot that will work with the DOS card.
Oy.... I never get it all in one message before I think of something
else.... :-/
It's probably got cracked solder joints in it since resocketing stuff
didn't do it... intermitent hardware problem from the heat problems... I
never had any extra cards in my 6100.... I imagine the addition of a 486
card or whatever the DOS card is probably makes it even hotter. It's
really kind of sad the 6100 had to get such a poor design as far as
cooling is concerned.
I swear, I'm not going to post anymore on this issue unless requested.
Really.
-Matt
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