Re: Apple /// broken?

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

Okay, I'll try this later (or at some point in the next couple of weeks) and get back to you on it.  I'm sure I'll need more guidance.  I don't even know how to open the top of that thing.


On Monday, July 23, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC-4, schmidtd wrote:
> On 7/23/2012 3:29 PM, KP wrote:
> > On Jul 23, 3:22 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >> On 7/23/2012 3:03 PM, KP wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yesterday, I turned on an Apple /// for the first time.  Nothing
> >>> showed up on the Monitor ///, which did have its red "power" light
> >>> on.  The /// "on" light was on, and the built-in disk drive briefly
> >>> whirred before going quiet.  I turned the machine off and waited
> >>> several seconds.  I then turned the machine back on again.  This time,
> >>> and on subsequent attempts, there was no disk drive noise.  Instead,
> >>> the "on" light went on but nothing showed up on the screen and it just
> >>> sat there very quietly.
> >>
> >>> Thoughts?  Is it dead?  Can it be resurrected?
> >>
> >> It's pinin' for the fjords.
> >>
> >> What it needs is a good chip reseating.  (No, don't drop it.)  You can
> >> try the cheap way by taking the top cover off and pushing down on all
> >> the chips you can get to.  But to do it properly, you need to drop the
> >> pan and carefully disconnect the connectors in place in order to isolate
> >> the board.  Then you can get at everything... the memory riser is
> >> especially challenging, but again maybe you'll get lucky and the problem
> >> will be elsewhere.  Just try mushing down on each chip and then powering
> >> back up.
> >
> > Not familiar with the "fjords" expression.  Do you mean it's dead?
> 
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pinin%27+for+the+fjords
> 
> > Could I have destroyed it if it got tilted (gently tilted, just in the
> > carrying process--not violently) 270 degrees or even 360 degrees when
> > we moved it?
> 
> Destroyed?  No.  Exacerbated chip unseating?  Sure.
> 
> Folklore notwithstanding, I've had great luck resuscitating /// machines 
> by reseating the chips.  Sometimes more than once until they get into a 
> groove they really like.  ///'s don't really die.  The filter capacitors 
> may explode, but they're replaced easily enough.  And anyway, that's not 
> the problem you have since you didn't mention a horrible smell and/or 
> exploding sound coincident with turning the power on.  You just need to 
> get enough of the computer back on its feet so it can show you what it's 
> reporting on its diagnostics at boot time.