on 04/14/2004 02:18 AM, Charles M Gascoigne at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I worked out what the problem was - following Nat's suggestion (in a > very long and detailed response: thanks again!) I stripped the logic > board and cleaned out all the ram sockets and the rom socket. I think > the latter was the problem, there was a bit of lint caught in between > two of the teeth. According to a post on the 68k mac liberation army's > site this is a frequent cause of problems with these machines. > > This has also fixed the lengthy delay between startup chime and happy > mac, which according to repair mac > (http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html) is an early > symptom of simasimac, the horizontal lines of death. > > Thanks to everyone for their help. > > Cheers, > Charlie >
It does pay to keep them clean inside as well as out-side. Now fill those eight simm slots full of RAM and have some fun. :-) Michael -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
