Re: Apple IIgs random hardware crashing - any ideas?

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

I wrote earlier:

>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.

On the IIgs, IIRC, the pins are square, so the equivalent to squeezing
a formed round pin would be to bend a square pin so that it is slightly
curved, like a ")"--that will cause it to exert more force on the mating
socket.

-michael

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