Re: Apple IIe dead?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Scott Alfter writes ...
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> In article <39B100A7.2E2D94B7@ien.it>, Sabino Maggi  <maggi@ien.it> wrote:
> >I am trying to revive an old Apple IIeuroplus that I have found some
> >time ago.
> >Everything worked perfectly until a couple of hours ago when the machine
> >went dead.
> 
> Try reseating all the chips on the motherboard...working across and down the
> motherboard, pull a chip out, blow out the socket with some canned air, and
> put the chip back in.  Between this, cleaning the keyboard, and replacing
> the power supply, I got a II+ working again this way.
> 
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     Me, too-- just a few days ago.

     The trouble must be that pulling and resocketting chips (sometimes
cleaning the pins before resocketing) sounds like such a low-tech fix-- kind of
a last-ditch, BS try.  Except, it so often works!



Rubywand