Re: Apple IIe help...

[Matt Jenkins <mdvj@one.net.au>]

Jedi-Rob wrote:
> 
> I used to own an Apple IIe (loooong time ago)-anyway, I just picked up
> another one, and got tons of software/games etc.  BUT, I'm having
> trouble getting stuff to load...Everything worked to start out, but now,
> the in use light comes on...and it just sist there for up to 5 minutes
> before doing nothing--any suggestions??  It's an original Apple IIe with
> 2 disk drives, disk 2 interface card etc.  GReenscreen monitor and
> 64k...

There's a few causes for this:

Dirty Disk Drive (try swapping the drives around and cleaning them)
Drive needs speed adjustment (you can do this with many Apple II disk
utilities
but you need to boot the machine first)

Another very very common thing (although this is more common on the
later
I/O/Appledisk 5.25" controller) is the controller dying and exhibiting
that
behavior. It's almost always the same 74LSxxx chip that dies on the
card.
Seen this happen many many times.

Cheers,

Matt