my 3b1 won't boot at all

Neal P. Murphy murphyn at motcid.UUCP
Sat Feb 23 04:32:07 AEST 1991


jcs at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (John "C". Sucilla) writes:

>In article <1991Feb12.234150.29718 at terminator.cc.umich.edu> cja at max.ifs.umich.edu (Charles J. Antonelli) writes:
>>the other day i turned on my 3b1 and was rewarded with a screen full
>>of dots (not periods; on close inspection, it seemed that nearly every
>>other pixel or so was turned on).  the dots come into view as the

>>now what do i do?  has anyone been there?  what did you do?


>Power it down, wait for the disk to stop spinning and then....

>.... Pick it up about two inches and then drop it.

>(I'm not kidding.)

Yes, your name isn't Shirley, but you do jest. Dropping the system two inches is a
good way to break things.

Open the case (by removing the appropriate 10-16 screws) and disconnect and reconnect
every connection you can find (after unplugging the AC mains, of course.) It should
boot after that.

NPN



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