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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II/GS Died ...
Message-ID: <12111@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 16 Aug 89 06:06:26 GMT
References: <195@fjcp60.GOV> <5020003@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Henry Throop)
Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon
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In article <5020003@hplsla.HP.COM> billh@hplsla.HP.COM (Bill Harris) writes:
[....]
>Oh yes, I asked, and the repair person said that they have had very few
>defective IIGS power supplies.
>
>Bill Harris
>
I had on go bad on me - no system errors, but a 'clicking' coming from the 
power supply every time a character was printed to the text screen.  Real
annoying.  My dealer had not heard of this before, but replacing the power
supply (under warranty) fixed the problem.  Interestingly, I read a few months
later that this is actually normal (according to Apple) and a by-product
of the switching design.

Incidently, the power supply ws not the only thing to go bad on me - I also
sent through 3 motherboards, 2 keyboard, 2 monitors, and 3 disk drives before
I got everything working.
 
Henry

Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu