Re: Help: my II is freaking out...

[Nama <forums6000@mac.com>]

Problem Fixed.
I took all the IC's out and cleaned all the legs. Great to get rid of
all that black gunge on some of the IC's. Unfortunately that didn't
help. However, When I was cleaning the legs on the Character ROM, I
noticed one of the holes on the socked didn't seem to have any metal
conector inside!!! I poked around with a pin and it seemed as if the
metal part had been pushed to one side at some point in it's history.
I poked and bent it back into shape and everything works fine now.

Thanks again

Phil

On Jun 28, 7:07 pm, Nama <forums6...@mac.com> wrote:
> Thanks Michael...I thought I'd have to do that.
>
> Thanks for advice.
>
> Phil
>
> On Jun 28, 3:47 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Nama wrote:
> > > Just got back home (Japan) from 2 months in the US, working.
> > > I was looking forward to firing up My Apple II, but when I did the
> > > screen/characters are kind of flickering, and many of the charcters
> > > aregarbled!!!! It was working perfectly before I left.
>
> > > My only thought I had was that the character rom has freaked out, but
> > > I wanted to ask here first befor I start pulling chips.
>
> > > Any help much appreciated.
>
> > Try reseating chips first...  And reseating any slot cards.
>
> > In short, wiggle every connector to improve contacts worsened
> > by oxidation.
>
> > -michael
>
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>
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