Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!ranger From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Burnt Mac+ Message-ID: <2487@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 13:36:51 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2487 Posted: Tue Dec 16 13:36:51 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 23:38:31 EST References: <16644@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 22 Summary: Mac+ upgrades have been smoking... > my Mac+ when it smoked? I am afraid that one day when I am doing something > really important my Mac+ is going to go berzerk again. Or maybe something > more subtle is happening. I would be very interested if anybody else has had > a similar experience or can tell me what condition my Mac+ is in. By all means have your dealer open the Mac up and replace the analog board and power supply. Don't accept anything less than a complete replacement of those parts. Is your Mac+ an upgrade? Infoworld reported this week that some upgraded machines have been smoking and a few hav actually caught fire. All of the machines involved were 512K Macs upgraded to Mac+'s. Apple has said that the problem is that dealers are doing the upgrade improperly in some cases. If yours is a new Mac+, there may be a batch of defective power supplies. Many of the ones that have smoked have damaged the analog board, sometimes the heat has been bad enough to damage the main logic board and in a few rare cases, fire has destroyed the machine. If you bought a new Mac+ you may want to be sure that your dealer has not ripped you off by selling you a used 512K Mac upgraded to a plus because all of the problems have been with those Machines to date. Rick Fincher ranger@ecsvax