Hi
A frequent failure I was told IIRC (?) is a 100K 2W resistor around the 120V
input. The 2 I fixed had exactly that same problem but the "pop" might be
something totaly different...
Claude
----- Original Message -----
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: I blew up my IIgs!
> Yes, I really did. Are Apple IIgses that easy to kill? Normally I just
keep
> a single 5.25" drive attached to it, but I needed a 3.5" drive as well
> today (I'll explain as part of a larger question). So I plugged the 3.5"
> into the computer, the 5.25" into the 3.5", turned the machine on, it made
> three loud pops and died. The power light does not come on now and there
> is no activity from the disk drives.
>
> I fortunately do have another IIgs in stock, and was able to swap power
> supplies so that it boots again (this second is a defective unit I use for
> spare items). I will say that I wish every power supply were as easy
> to replace as the IIgses -- it literally just snaps in and out.
>
> Now that I have shot an apparently unrepairable PS, or is it?, what did I
> do wrong so I don't destroy more hardware in the future? Can you really
> not mix drives? Remember, I'm a C64 freak and I have all kinds of disk
> drives connected up to my Commodore farm. :-P
>
> Now the larger question.
>
> This IIgs netboots ProDOS 16 from an SE/30 over AppleTalk, which works
> quite well. Soon I'll have the IIgs using the SE/30 as a gateway to the
> apartment network (and shortly thereafter the C128 will join it).
>
> I tried to netboot GS/OS on it -- I don't know what version (this is a
> ROM 03 1MB IIgs). It gives me the nice "Welcome to the IIGS" screen,
> an AppleShare CDEV? appears lower-left and then disappears, it chugs along
> some more, and then drops out and puts me back at the AFP client. It
> then refuses to boot GS/OS at all until I restart the machine.
>
> Is this a symptom of something specific? If I just wanted to check if the
> machine were capbale and properly configured for running GS/OS, how could
> I do that? And where can I find GS/OS disk images? I looked in
>
>
ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Upd
ates/English-North_American/Apple_II/Apple_IIGS_System_6.0.1/
>
> but there doesn't appear to be anything in there(?). Disk Copy-format
would
> be nice, something I can break apart on my Power Mac.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> --
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> -- Proponents of other opinions will be merrily beaten to a bloody
pulp. ------
Received on Tue May 08 2001 - 18:56:46 BST