Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!maypo!lippin From: lippin@maypo.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Dead Mac video Message-ID: <10548@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 88 10:38:49 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: lippin@math.berkeley.edu Organization: Authorized Service, Incorporated Lines: 19 Posted: Sat Jun 4 06:38:49 1988 When I switched my Mac (Fat, upgraded to Plus) on tonight, all I go on the screen was a vertical line down the middle, acting as if all the pixels had been mashed away from the edges. It still boots and shuts down fine (thanks in part to my adding cmd-Q==Shut Down to the Finder), so the problem seems to be just in the video. As far as I noticed, there was no warning or external attack. Is this the famed flyback transformer breakdown? If so, how should I fix it/get it fixed? If not, what is wrong, and how can it be fixed? Please reply by mail; I'm leaving town next week. --Tom Lippincott lippin@math.berkeley.edu ..ucbvax!math!lippin "First the quake, and then the thunder, Then it all just slid right under. Goodbye, California." --Corky Siegel