Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!usc!apple!baum
From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac Plus Video Problem - a cause
Message-ID: <36480@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 21:57:36 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.134706.7858@uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1989Nov14.134706.7858@uncecs.edu> hunnic@uncecs.edu (Jeff Hunnicutt) writes:
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>I have a Mac Plus that exhibits the symptom of a single vertical
>line up the middle of the screen. My question is this, does anyone 
>know what particular component may be failing?

I've been informed that the usual cause for that problem is the failure of
a 3.9uf 25v non-polarized capacitor. Its about 1.25" high, .5" diameter,
near the top of the board, component number C1.

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