on 3/21/04 1:46 AM, Daan Goedkoop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > Exactly one month ago I bought a Mac SE/30. It worked fine, until yesterday. > In the morning, it the bong sounded a few seconds after power-on, and in the > evening it did not boot at all and displayed a weird pattern on the screen. > This morning it did boot but again after a few seconds. > > That would indicate it is Simasimac. > > When the processor is doing certain things (for example, when selecting icons) > almost silent noises come from the speaker. That was already so when I bought > the Mac, but today and yesterday they seem a little louder than they were > before, at least in the first few minutes it is running. Can that have > something to do with it? > > Now after having been running for about an hour, I tried to reboot the > machine. The bong sounded, the grey pattern and mouse arrow appeared. For ten > seconds nothing happened, but then it displayed the question mark diskette. > So I turned it off and on and then it booted just fine, not even with a > delay. I tried it another time (shutdown, poweroff, poweron) and again it > booted without any problems. > > So what do you think? What might be wrong? > > Daan.
At this point slight damage to the System Folder, maybe. Or a dying hard disk. Noises from the speaker are caused by leaking sound-circuit capacitors which have been shown, repeatedly successfully by now, to be repaired by washing the motherboard in a dishwasher then allowing it to dry for several days. This seems to get the waxy residue off the parts that "short-circuit" and refreshes the board. In the act, you'd be reseating the ROM and memory sticks, another curative for weird-acting SE/30 Compacts. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
