From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 13:48:42 EDT
Duke..
sounds to me like your problem is the top cover cable..
press on the bezel just under the display on the left third..
move the top around..
if this reproduces the problem, then.. :-)
no damage at all if the floppy is not in the bay..
Love and Jones Webmaster wrote:
> I figured out that maybe there was some sort of short going on with
> the video card and the floppy drive I had installed. If I "jiggled" and
> moved the (unrestrained) floppy drive around in the bay _just_ right,
> the video would go back to normal. However, it would return to its
> washed out green cast soon there after. I finally cracked open my
> TP, and removed the floppy drive. Voila, no more green screen. It's
> an inelegant solution, though, even if I hardly use the floppy drive. I
> fear if I put it back, or a CD-ROM drive in there, I'll have the same
> problem. At least (hopefully) I can now get it repaired at my lesiure,
> instead of worrying about a short or video failure.
>
> My question to the group...I won't do any long term damage to the TP
> if I remove the offending floppy drive, will I? With the circumstances
> that I described, do folks here concur that it may be a "short" of some
> kind, or something else?
>
> Earl "Duke" Bryant
> www.lawonyourside.com
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