Patrick,
That is EXACTLY how my SE/30 behaves when the motherboard needs cleaning (again).
It's apparently caused by a sticky chemical substance leaking from the old capacitors,
mixing with ambient dust, and causing an undesirable capacitance effect on the board.
I'd be willing to bet that if you removed the motherboard, cleaned the entire surface
carefully with alcohol-moistened Q-Tips (especially around the small metal can-shaped
capacitors), your SE/30 would come back to "life" when you re-assembled it. I have to
clean mine about every six months. I'm sure that some day, the capacitors will have
to be replaced.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: SE/30 problems
> I have a SE/30 that has been acting up, when I boot it up it displays
> vertical lines on the screen. I read somewhere that it might be the
> power supply going, but I removed the hard drive and it still happens
> so it might not be that.
> I have a picture of what it looks like because I have looked at some
> of the web pages that describe ill SEs but haven't been able confirm
> what is wrong with my mac. The bong doesn't sound when I start it up,
> but I have used it while this was occurring and it worked fine.
> Recently it would sometimes boot fine but other times just displays
> this odd screen. I have tried cleaning the ram connectors, but that
> didn't seem to help.
>
> http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~p3west/PA191136.JPG
>
>
> What is wrong with my mac?
>
>
> Patrick
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