Re: Apple //e Not Booting

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Senor Wences wrote:
>> I found a 65C02 online that I have purchased. Thanks for the troubleshooting information, Bill. With any luck my //e will be up 
>> and running again. With the 65C02 pulled from the motherboard I get the same horizontal bar pattern, so hopefully a blown CPU is 
>> the culprit here.
>
> ..or anything at all that prevents the reset code from running, which could be several things.  Frankly, the likelihood of a CPU 
> failing in an unpowered machine is pretty low.

Agreed!, except that with 25 year old electronic hardware
anything is a possibility. Plus, I've had that very screen
display happen to me, and it was, in fact, the CPU at fault.

Most times it happened between shut down and restart, too.

Bill