--- On Mon, 8/29/11, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
I'm not sure if it's the same on the
Apple II as it is the Apple IIe, but a shorted cap on the
mainboard near the PSU connector caused one of my IIe's to
appear dead (apart from ticking noises in the PSU).
Probably not. The II/II+ does not have the tantalum capacitors that the IIe does. My money
is on a chip that's plugged in backwards, or a shorted RAM chip.
-Ian