Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!jdu
From: jdu@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (john.d.unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive
Message-ID: <13525@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 13:18:13 GMT
References: <9823@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jdu@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (john.d.unruh,ih,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <9823@portia.Stanford.EDU> thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:
>
>...In any case, I have another question to toss out in regards to the SE/30.
>I heard from an unidentifyable source that the system board for the SE/30
>has changed 3 times since the first ones were shipped out in Jan 1989.  Is 
>there any validity to this claim?  If so, were any drastic changes made?
>
>Oh well, I haven't had any problems yet with mine....
>
>
>----Derek Fong
>fong@cive.stanford.edu
>thewho@portia.stanford.edu


I bought an SE/30 just before the first of the year.  I had crashing problems
from the beginning, but I thought it was some piece of software that I had
installed.  Then it got worse.  Finally, it got so bad that the machine would
only run about 15 minutes.  It would just hang or get a bomb 1, 3, or 7.  
A few times it got a sad mac with code F0003.  At the end, I was running on
a write locked apple floppy and still had bombs.  At that point I concluded
that it couldn't be the software so I took it back (under warranty).  The
machine has been with the dealer for over 2 weeks.  The tech claims that they
ran diagnostics and found that the system board is bad.  Furthermore he claims
that they cannot get replacement system boards for the 4 customer machines that
they have in their repair department (all SE/30).  He also said something about
the possibility of design problems in the SE/30 system board.

At this point, I want the machine back and working.  I wish Apple would get
its act together and get good spare parts to the field.

John Unruh