Apple III booting Irregularity

From: Adam Jenkins <adam_at_merlin.net.au>
Date: Sat Sep 20 03:45:16 1997

>Sounds like just unseated chips, this was very common for this unit, I have
>4 myself. Take off the cover and push in all the chips checking for
>corrosion. After you remove the top you can remove the motherboard on its
>mounting plate from the bottom. If you pull out the titan cards you also
>remove the video bios. Unless you have the old chip to replace the chip
>the cards are attatched to, you can't boot the machine.

Apple recommended that when this started to occur, you picked the Apple ///
a couple of inches off the table and dropped it to reseat the chips.

I'm not suprised that they weren't the success Apple had wanted. :)

Adam.
Received on Sat Sep 20 1997 - 03:45:16 BST