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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: macII doesn't turn on
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.174236.15553@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 17:42:36 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.143855.17395@midway.uchicago.edu>, rfl@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Bob Loewenstein) writes:
|> Thanks to all those who had possible solutions to my mac II problem.
|> These suggestions included:
|>   1. The problem discussed by Robin Goldstone where unplugging the mac
|>     and waiting 10-20 seconds, then replugging will allow the mac to
|>     turn on.
|>   2. Bad lithium batteries.
|>   3. Bad connection on the adb bus
|> 
|> Unfortunately none of these suggestions applied to my mac. I did get
|> this report from Bill Buikema here at UC:
|> > Here's the scoop.  Apple has announced free repair of those MacIIs that have
|> > this problem if they are within a specified range of serial numbers.  Talk
|> > to the Computer Center repair person about it.  It involves the replacement
|> > of the power supply with a modified version.  Someone in out lab had this
|> > problem, and was very frustrated.  Somedays it would come on, others no.

Waaaaah!

I just got a bill for $289 for repairing (instead of replacing for
$400) my Mac II power supply.  The repairman said that it had overheated,
but it sounds like it might have been something else (I wasn't in the
habit of leaving the machine one for long periods when it broke).

I have put up with this problem for over a year.  One place replaced
the motherboard ($400), and the problem resurfaced again (after the
warranty ran out, unconveniently).  I spent $30 on replacement
batteries, and another $40 for someone to tell me that my power supply
was good.

Thanks to Apple for providing this service.  I guess it's just bad
luck that I already got it fixed, and that if the warranty had been
1 year in the first place I would have gotten it fixed a year ago.

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