Re: Apple ][ Europlus - power supply problem...

["myoldmac.net" <usenet@myoldmac.net>]

On Mar 9, 3:12 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 8, 4:26 pm, "myoldmac.net" <use...@myoldmac.net> wrote:
>
> >  The Disk drive starts to run, the red LED is
> > glowing straight, the Disk is cycling - but not booting...
>
> > I tried a few DOS Disks - no booting at all.
>
> > Any idea?-
>
> You prolly blew one of the chips in the drive...  There is a chip in
> there
> that will go bad if you plug in wrong..
>
> either that, or :
>
> 1)disk drive dirty
> 2)disk speed not correct
> 3)disks are bad
>
> Rich

Thank you for the informations.

Can you exactly tell me the name or position of this maybe blown up
chip (it smelled a bit after first launch...)

I have two other old Disk ][ drives with I/O errors - if they fail on
head justage again I could try to swap chips.

I will try another working drive from my Apple //e to see whats up.