You could fry something for sure. The power supply will probably
just shut down if there's a short, but you may damage some cards
if there are shorts in the motherboard between power and signal
leads.

My Lisa had the dreaded leaking NiCad syndrome. One of it's many 
troubles was open leads on the motherboard. There is a thing that
happens between the power supply and the I/O board at power-on.
The power supply needs to get an okay signal from the I/O in order
to stay "on". In my Lisa that little loop was open in about four different
places. It just clicked when I pushed the power button.

I cleaned and patched the motherboard and got it to power up and
pass power-on tests, but eventually I had to replace the motherboard
to get the profile to work and the OS to run. 

Bill


On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Peter wrote:


I've got two working Lisas and two dead ones.  One of the dead
ones had battery leakage all over the motherboard and shows
no sign of life whatsoever.  The other one makes a clicking sound
when the power is plugged in, from the vicinity of the power
supply.

If I were to swap components out with my working Lisas, is
there a risk of frying something?  For instance, if I put one of
the power supplies from the dead Lisas into a live one to see if
it works, and a good power supply into a dead one, or swapping
CPU and memory boards between live and dead computers
could I possibly fry working components?

Peter



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