Troubleshooting Your Macintosh 1992

Troubleshooting Your Macintosh: The Complete, Hands-On Guide to Upgrading and Maintaining Your Macintosh is a 1992 book by Douglass High, published by M&T Books, a division of M&T Publishing, San Mateo, California. ISBN 1-55851-189-X; Library of Congress TK7889.M33H54 1992, card number 91-43427; first printing. The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xvi, 449 pages.

It is a third-party repair and upgrade guide covering the compact Macs from the Plus, the Macintosh II family, the LC and the early PowerBooks. Unlike Apple's module-level service manuals, parts of it go down to individual components.

Contents

Chapter start pages from the book; the printed contents list gives wrong page numbers for the glossary (391) and the index (405).

• Why This Book Is for You, p. 1; Preface
• Chapter 1: The Art and Science of Troubleshooting Your Macintosh, p. 7
• Chapter 2: Troubleshooting the Macintosh Operating System, p. 13 (including High's "Five Step Fix", p. 22)
• Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade and Troubleshooting Safely, p. 45
• Chapter 4: The Macintosh Power-On Self Test (P.O.S.T.) and Startup Sequence, p. 83
• Chapter 5: Memory, Upgrading, Adding SIMMs, p. 105
• Chapter 6: Power Supply, p. 137
• Chapter 7: Floppy Disk Drives, p. 175
• Chapter 8: Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), p. 195
• Chapter 9: Video Displays, p. 209
• Chapter 10: SCSI and Hard Disk Drives, p. 231
• Chapter 11: Networking, p. 247
• Chapter 12: File Transfers, p. 267
• Chapter 13: Problems and Solutions, p. 277
• Chapter 14: Printers and Printing Problems, p. 345
• Chapter 15: Preventive Maintenance and Warranty Service, p. 379
• Glossary, p. 399
• Appendix A: Macintosh Resources, p. 405
• Appendix B: Macintosh Error Codes, p. 413
• Index

Repair content

• Chapter 3 lists tools and test equipment and covers high-voltage hazards and a CRT discharge procedure (pp. 70-76). For Apple's own procedure see CRT Discharge Procedure.
• Chapter 4 describes the startup sequence and error chords and decodes Sad Mac codes, with sections on the SE and II ROMs and the Portable ROMs (pp. 83-104). See also Sad Mac Error Codes.
• Chapter 6 explains switch-mode supply operation stage by stage, then gives a way to check the supply rails without opening the case: on machines with an external floppy port, measure pins 5 (-12 V), 6 (+5 V) and 7-8 (+12 V) of the DB-19 connector against ground on pins 1-4 (Table 6-3). High allows 5 to 10 per cent either side of nominal and prefers readings within 5 per cent. He names the adjustment potentiometers: RV-171-REGADJ on the II, IIx and IIfx, VADJ on the SE and SE/30, "voltage" on the Plus, and unmarked on the Classic and Classic II.
• Chapter 8 covers dead ADB ports: the Tokin D16-C RF choke filter (usually L1) behind the ADB ports and the 1 A pico fuse (usually F1) on newer machines, how to test and bypass them, and a table of high-failure parts, for example R14 (470 Ω), R15 (1 kΩ) and Q1 (2N3904) on the Macintosh SE.
• Chapter 10 identifies the NCR SCSI controller used in each family and the 1 A pico fuse on the SCSI termination-power line of the SE/30, Macintosh II family and later machines (F2 on the Macintosh II).
• Chapter 11 includes LocalTalk faults, including networks longer than the 300-metre maximum.
• Chapter 13 is a symptom-and-solution guide arranged by model family: the compact Macs, the modular Macintosh II family with the LC and LC II, and the IIcx, IIci, IIsi and Quadra 700.

What this book does not contain

It has no schematics and no complete parts lists. It is a secondary source written for users and technicians; where it differs from Apple's service documentation, check the relevant volume in Category:Apple Service Source. The hosted scan is 471 PDF pages, covers included.

Pages that cite this book

• Macintosh HDD Maintenance
• Hard Drive Maintenance and Repair

Related titles on this wiki

• Programming with AppleTalk 1991

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