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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP - Mac Classic screen is blank after shipment  -  HELP
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.194930.6838@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:49:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.062606.24120@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <6100@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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In article <6100@trantor.harris-atd.com>, epayne@x102a.harris-atd.com (payne edward 01471) writes:
|> In article <1991Apr23.062606.24120@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> paryavi@cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes:
|> >
|> >I just shipped a Mac Classic overseas.  When it got there, they plugged it into
|> >a trasformer and here is what happened:  The mac powers on with its 
|> >normal beep.  The hard drive starts spinning and makes its normal starup noises.
|> >HERE IS THE PROBLEM:  The screen is completely blank!  Not even a flash of
|> >light!  Nothing at all!
|> >What could have gone wrong?
|> 	My SE/30 came that way and it turned out to be the brightness knob
|> had some cold solder joints that had come loose and made no contact.  They
|> just gave me a new analog board.  But the Classic doesn't have a brightness
|> knob.  Maybe the connector to the CRT has come off in shipment: doesn't
|> happen often but I have seen that also.
Or the tube could have broken. I've seen that too. You need to open the machine
to check for these possiblities.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu