Re: Remedial Help?

[eeastman@apple2.com]

Both the monitor and the computer should have power lights on them.  Are
they on?  If you have power lights on both, does the IIe computer turn
on one of the disk drives and make a racket as it attempts to boot?  If
yes so far, try adjusting the monitor brightness and contrast controls.  

BTW, the monitor should work using a standard RCA cable, even an audio
one.  You may need to hook it to an 80 column card though.  If you don't
get anything still, pull out all the card (while the computer is OFF)
and try it again.

Report back here.
Thankx,
Ed
eeastman AT apple2.com


Goodfellow wrote:
> 
> My son got hold of an AppleIIe a few years ago and it seemed to work
> well, we moved and packed it away and when we unpacked it and found a
> spot for it, it has not been booted up for a bout 3 years.  I am not
> sure I found the correct cable to connect the monitor...it seems to be
> a simple video cable connector. However when the monitor and the
> computer are turned on nothing appears on the screen. Is there
> supposed to be a cursor or prompt.. we have a floppy drive attached
> and it seems like it would boot off a disk in the floppy drive but
> nothing shows on the screen ... any advice on trouble shooting would
> be appreciated.