Re: what is the voltage tolerance for a iie?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

bieling@terra.es wrote:
> On May 12, 6:21 am, jonno...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately when I unpacked the apple and plugged it in, it seemed
> > to be DOA - the screen was always a periodically changing jumble of
> > blocks (photo athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnosan/494345448/).
> > keypresses made no difference, nor did pressing reset (alone or in
> > combination with other keys)
>
>
> Does it beep when turned on ?
> Does it stop looping while holding down control-reset ?
> If it does stop, the CPU/RAM/ROM aren't working properly, but the rest
> of the system most likely is.
> If it doesn't the CPU don't even gained control of the address/data
> buses, meaning something else is wrong, not necessarily the CPU/RAM/
> ROM.
> Is there any card plugged in ?
>
> The voltages seem to be ok, I think.

The fact that it is running the self-test pretty much exonerates
everything except the keyboard itself.

-michael

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