Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!jon From: jon@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jon George Seidl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Broken Commodores Message-ID: <3737@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 00:00:41 EST Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.3737 Posted: Wed Dec 2 00:00:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 06:46:45 EST References: <1791@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP Reply-To: jon@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jon George Seidl) Organization: University of WI-Milwaukee Lines: 28 In article <1791@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> choong@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Choong Huei Seow) writes: > >I do not often get to read this newsgroup so this may have come up >before. I had a problem with my Commodore: When I turned it on the >screen would come up with the normal colors but no words would appear >and it would not respond to the keyboard. > This isn't a response to the above. However, it is a little note of interest related to above. I've found that the first thing to check is the power supply with C64s when they go down. If you have the industry standard of electronics caked in plastic-gook, you will probably (if not already) have problems with the power supply over-heating. When mine went the symptoms were a blank screen of light blue (I think) without any border and the power light would not come on. Jon 'If bitnet bounces, c'est la vie...we're breaking in new nodes.' --------------- \_/ \/\/ - /\/\ilwaukee BRING BACK MAX, PLEASE!!!! arpanet: jon@csd4.milw.wisc.edu bitnet: jon%csd4.milw.wisc.edu@wiscmac3.bitnet (vms3.macc.wisc.edu) UUCP: ihnp4!uwmcsd1!csd4!jon