Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!fulk
From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac II refuses to power up
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.142917.3268@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:29:17 GMT
References: <336@siodo.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: fulk@avocado.cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept
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In article <336@siodo.UCSD.EDU> laver@siodo.UCSD.EDU (Mick Laver) writes:
>A coworker has a Mac II that won't power up at all. It's as if the
>keyboard wasn't even connected to the CPU. I have ...
>... It DID work for a while after it came back from the
>second time, but it sure doesn't now. Clues? Thanks.
>
>God I love intermittent problems.

I had a similar problem with my IIcx.  It seems that leaving it unplugged
for varying amounts of time, sometimes as much as 30 minutes, fixes things
temporarily.  I now have mine on a switchable power strip/surge protector,
with power to the cpu controlled by the monitor.  Seems to work fine now.
I suspect that power line spikes (Rochester Gas and Electric is infamous
for them) knock the power supply into some sort of weird state.

Mark