Richard Halkyard wrote:
Matt Emson wrote:
You can probably pick up a replacement 6100 for peanuts. I once got 3
in a
lot of 9 Macs for less than $40, and that was over two years ago.
They're
probably cheaper now. I've seen them sell on eBay for $1.
Fair enough. It'll make a good parts source then.
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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