Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!rex!mgse!fleet!mel From: mel@fleet.UUCP (mel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Dead Mac Plus Screen Message-ID: <16@fleet.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 09:02:15 GMT References: <89228.113355GAB100@PSUVM> Organization: Fleet Parts & Equipment, Inc. Lines: 9 >Another problem from Happy Valley - after about 1/2 hour of use, my Mac Plus >will start having video problems... the screen will just blank out. Tapping >on the side of the machine will restore it temporarily, but after a few more Check for two or three "cold solder joints" on the back of the vertical circuit board on the left side of the Mac Plus (looking from the front). These joints account for about 80% of the Mac Plus failures.