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From: siritzky@mfci.UUCP (Brian Siritzky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Power supply failure on 2.5 Meg Mac Plus
Keywords: power supply, failure, RAM, Mac
Message-ID: <1246@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:45:38 GMT
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In article <11026@zodiac.ADS.COM> pdel@zodiac.ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas) writes:
>>This weekend my MacPlus got very sick.  The symptom was that the
>>entire screen image was a thin vertical line down the center of the
>>screen. 

Thanks for all of your replies.  For some further information, my Mac is
over 4 years old.  I bought it a few months before the Plus was announced.
I use it extensively, its on almost every day for at least 3 hours.  I have
always used a screen saver, and even when I'm actually working my screen
is quite dim because I do not have many other lights on in the room.  So,
my point is that this is the first failure in all these years, and I don't
really think that its a cause for too much Apple bashing.   After all, my
Jasmine drive gave much more trouble, but that's another story.  Of course
I would like for this problem not to happen again, and if it does then I'll
bash Apple myself.

For all those who suggested the "do it yourself" approach, I was really 
tempted, especially since I work for a company which builds mini-super
computers, and we have a fully equipped lab and lots of people here who
could do the job.  Unfortunately, I needed it repaired immediately (if
not sooner), so there was no time to get all the parts, spec sheets etc.
Now that I know that it can be done I'll definitely do it myself next
time and borrow a Mac.

Again, thanks for all the help and replies.  Oh, even though someone said
that the extra memory didn't cause the problem, FYI it had been in the
machine for about 6 months.

P.S. Don't think this didn't make me start looking at the SE/30 and the
various IIs.  Maybe I will be able to afford a IIci after all.  Depends 
on how often the power supply has to be replaced.