on 11/9/05 2:58 PM, Kyle Koerner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > Got a Mac II today - or, rather, a Mac IIfx in a II case. Cleaned it, > replaced PRAM batteries with working ones, and powered on once without > drives. PS took a few tries, but did come on. All seemed well, so I > turned it off and added drives (1 FD and a 5" 60 meg HD. Turned this > on, and when the drive started to spin up, a resister, labeled L4 (near > power connector for HD) became red, smoldered, and went *snap* as I > quickly unplugged the power. Is this the drive's fault? It seems to > be in the region of the hard drive power connector. > > Another, side issue I noticed was some brown gunk coming from the > processor region. What is this? There aren't any capacitors near > there that could have leaked... > > Thanks for any help. > > Kyle- > A 'L' designator is usually used with inductors not resistors.
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