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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacIIx won't turn on!
Message-ID: <1348@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 91 20:49:35 GMT
References: <1991May11.043037.18928@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:


>Suddenly my MacIIx won't turn on when I push the startup button
>on the keyboard.  Switching keyboards with a working machine
>doesn't help.  Anybody have any suggestions?  

This used to happen to me on my II, and kept happening when that
same II became a IIfx, which pretty much exonerates the motherboard.

It went away when I stopped keeping my machine on its side.  Are
you using one of those vertical stands?
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