The other day I picked up a Macintosh 512k with a broken monitor for $5
thinking that it'd be a fun project to hack on (yes, another thing to
add to my pile of things to hack on, just what I need :)).
The power/sweep board had a couple of obviously dead capacitors and a
few cracked solder joints, which I fixed up and lo and behold, the
screen came back to life and I did a little dance. There was still a
bit of jitter in the picture from time to time, and jiggling one of the
connectors revealed another dry joint so I powered it down and prepared
to fix the other joint. First point of business, I discharged the CRT.
To the main chassis. This, as I have now discovered, is not what you
are supposed to do to discharge the CRT unless you want to destroy the
logic board.
I now have a working monitor but a fried logic board; on powerup, the
normally short boot tone is long and drawn out, as if the machine were
running at a tiny fraction of its normal speed. Which I suppose is
actually what's going on. So I killed _something_ on the main PCB, but
I'm not sure what. Anyone out there experienced this failure mode? Any
obvious things to check?
Well, live and learn. At least it wasn't a 128K mac :).
Thanks,
Josh