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Article #43211Re: Mac Plus Motherboard from Hell
From: Ken McLeod
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 09:19
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 09:19
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In article <14233@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> terence@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Terence Chang) writes:
>Mac error code 0300FF (a RAM test failure) which was no surprise,
>because the usual pattern of diagonal stripes that follows a cold
>start was glitched. Badly. Columns of extra pixels in the middle
>of the screen and columns of missing pixels on the right side.
>
> Then I put the Mac on its side and spanked its bottom. And
>voila! Up and running without a single misplaced pixel. First
>there was the cold start and the warm start, and now the Han Solo
>start. Does anybody know what's really wrong with my Mac?
Yes. One (or more) SIMMs aren't making good contact. Open up the Mac
and reseat the SIMMs; they've probably just worked loose.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!dhw68k!thecloud From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Plus Motherboard from Hell Keywords: sierra, papa, alpha, november, kilo Message-ID: <23319@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 30 May 89 09:19:43 GMT References: <14233@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Distribution: usa Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 19