Ah, no. That's like putting black tape over the check engine light on your car's dashboard. Eventually things will get really bad. The voltage pots are in the middle of the board, marked PP1
On Sep 12, 11:52 am, platnicat <platni...@gmail.com> wrote: > The drive DEFINITELY is D.E.A.D. I put it in an external SCSI > enclosure with no fans, and it makes no noise whatsoever. I had read > that stiction article before, and I tried that too. Also, the 5V was > at around 4.5, and the 12V was at around 10! I couldn't find an > adjustment, however, so I expanded the vertical and horizontal to fill > the screen. The jumpy video is much less noticeable and now the screen > looks gorgeous! > > On Sep 11, 7:21 am, chrisA <goo...@ccadams.org> wrote: > > > > > platnicat wrote: > > > However, the HDD isn't being recognized in any disk > > > format utility I tried. > > > Does it mount on the desktop? > > > Maybe you know that non-Apple drives aren't recognised by Apple HD SC > > Setup, though third-party disk formatters should see it if it's still > > alive. Ernst J. Oud's web page "Formatting Macintosh SCSI drives" has > > a host of suggestions and links to formatting software: > > >http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html > > > One way to tell if the drive is spinning up is to temporarily stick a > > toothpick through the SE's fan blades to stop them whirring, and then > > listen for drive noise. No noise probably means no drive.... > > > If it seems dead, the problem may be "stiction", discussed here: > > >http://ccadams.org/se/stiction.html > > > Good luck, > > Chris Adams. > > --- > > The Mac SE Support Pageshttp://ccadams.org/se/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
