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From: smithw@physc1.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac Plus screen *mostly* black
Message-ID: <49smithw@physc1.byu.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 00:14:37 GMT
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   I have a Mac+ at home and I've noticed just lately that on
 start up sometimes (maybe 10% of the time) about 80 to 90% of
the screen is dark except for a normally lighted strip down the
left hand side.  This weirdness goes away when the hard disk starts
to boot. There is not a definite line between the light and dark
parts of the screen, it sort of fuzzes into black.  Then yesterday
I was doing some word processing and suddenly this same thing happens
again.  It looks just like the screen is a dark room when someone
opens a door (at the left of the screen) and some light washes over
some of the objects in the room. Very strange.  Any one know what
is going on with this beast?  The machine has some 3rd party memory
which I installed myself some time ago (about 8months back) and
a 40 meg external Nova disk.  No 3rd party DA's except for a screen
saver (MOIRE?) Help!

Bill Smith
smithw@mathnx.byu.edu
smithw@physc1.byu.edu