Re: Apple IIgs random hardware crashing - any ideas?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

>I've been experiencing similar behaviour with my main IIgs of late but
>haven't bothered looking into it much.  I mentioned it in chat in the
>Apple II community on Syndicomm one night and Tony Diaz said that it
>was probably my power supply connection.  Apparently the connector on
>the motherboard can become oxidized and there isn't a lot of pressure
>between the contacts in the cable and the pins on the motherboard
>connector so this can become a problem.
>
>I believe there is an article in Juiced.GS that explains this problem
>and ways to fix it so it doesn't occur again as quickly as it would by
>just sliding the connector on and off a few times to scrape the pins
>clean.  :-)

Squeezing the pins (on the main board) out of round can also help
restore some contact pressure.

-michael

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