Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel
From: stanfiel@testeng1.misemi (Chris Stanfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! Broken floppy drive?
Message-ID: <6573@testeng1.misemi>
Date: 18 Feb 91 13:59:05 GMT
References: <139610001@hpsmdca.HP.COM>
Reply-To: stanfiel@testeng1.UUCP ()
Organization: Mitel CAE Services
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In article <139610001@hpsmdca.HP.COM> guest@hpsmdca.HP.COM (Guest Account) writes:
>I'd like to ask the net for help with an internal 800K floppy drive on a 
>Mac SE.
I had a similar problem recently - first the internal drive started
misbehaving, and then the external. When I opened the Mac, I found
that the 5 volt rail was down to ~4.4 v. Despite this low voltage, the
main board kept on working happily! The problem was the power supply
connector on the analog board. It had overheated at some time, and
this had damaget the plating on the connector, causing a high
resistance connection. I replaced the connector, recalibrated the
power supply, and everything, including both floppy drives, worked
perfectly.

Chris Stanfield, Mitel Corporation: E-mail to:- uunet!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel
(613) 592 2122 Ext.4960
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