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From: chuck@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (charles bridgeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IDeas for a Sick ST?
Keywords: sick
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.230750.11287@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 23:07:50 GMT
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melton@mcnc.org (Matthew Stickles Melton) writes:

>My ST after three years of constant (literally) service has finally let me
>down.  When I turn it on the power light is dimmer than usual, the monitor
>goes to a sickly hue, and it sits there.  The internal disk read indicator 
>light is on as well, and also dimmer than usual.  I at first suspected the
>disk drive of being burned, but have eliminated that option by substitution
>inside a working ST.

>I now suspect the power supply.  I am an electrical engineer, but have very
>little desire to fix a power supply since it is analog in nature.
>But, I also am not going to mail it too Atari or some other fix-it house
>and pay them several hundred $$$$ to fix it (the going rate).  I will screw
>it up myself before I do that.  


low voltage?   maybe a voltage regulator, which shouldn't be too hard to
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