Bringing up an older Mac

[David Griffith]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mr Ian Primus wrote:

> --- David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
>
> > I've just brought up a Mac SE/30 with fresh disks
> > and noticed that the
> > monitor occasionally gets wavy or shudders.  How
> > should I proceed in
> > fixing this?
>
> When you say fresh disks, did you mount two internal
> hard disks inside the SE/30?

No.  I meant fresh floppies.

> You're probably going to need to replace a couple of
> capacitors on the analog board. There's one particular
> capacitor that comes to mind as causing a different
> problem, it's nonpolar, so watch out. Is it like a
> 60hz kind of a wave in the picture, or is it more
> random? A wave through the screen, like a waving flag?

It happens perhaps once every ten seconds.  The disturbance is something
like a ripple or wave that crawls up the side of the screen.

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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