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From: uncacj@uncecs.edu (Charles G. James Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,micro.mac
Subject: Problem with SE/30
Keywords: Repair SE/30 MAC
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.203141.23952@uncecs.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 89 20:31:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Help!
	I have a Mac SE/30 with 1M RAM and a 40M internal HardDisk about 30% full. What
started out as a intermitent error now has become constant. I turn on the
computer and it will go through the normal startup procedure, I assume. It will
display the Startupscreen and show an INIT icon. The screen and menus will look
normal and act normally as long as I do not start anything. I can select and
deselect the hard disk icon and pull down all of the menus. If I try to do
anything either by menu or double clicking it will begin with the expanding box
graphic then the system hangs. Even if I try Shutdown at this point, it will
hang. If I reset the system same behavior. For a while if I turned the computer
off and waited a while(1 day) the problem would disappear. Now, no dice. I tried
to start the computer using a floppy disk based system folder which gave the
same behavior. If I try to use some of the DA,s same behavior. In each case it
looks normal with the mouse cusor responding etc, until I actually try to do
something.
	The computer is still under warranty so I cannot open the case to explore but
our dealer always wants to know what is wrong before they fix the problem. By
the way this is the second problem I have had with this SE/30, it seems I was
one of the ones who got the bad hard disks.
Any help will be appreciated.

-- 
Charles G. James, Jr.
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Asheville 2
Asheville NC 28804
BITNET: uncacj@ecsvax