I reaplied some fresh heat-conductive cement between
the 601 and peltier heat sink - still no dice.
I'm fresh out of ideas - this mac remains as dead as a
door-nail. It still could be the PSU, but from what I
can check, it's working normally.
Tnaks for your help anyway.
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right down to the surface mount cap and resistor
placement, the
boards are identical except for the DRAM video
connectors.
I don't want to spend much money on it, but I can pick
up an 8100 board for about £10. I would like to keep
it around just as
--- Manuel Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mentioned the PRAM battery... Radius 81/110
wasn't the Mac clone that,
when the PRAM battery was dead, simply didn't boot?
I don't know, since
you've said that the battery was fine...
Greetings,
A lot of macs had this problem. The 1st get
--- Ken Watanabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're probably right about the PS being OK. When
my 8100 PS went bad, the
symptom was that it would initially start up, but it
would suddenly shut off
without warning.
You probably have, but have you reset the PRAM (the
OPT-CMD-R-P during
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pull the motherboard. Remove the heat sink. Clean
the CPU chip
(gently) with rubbing alcohol to get the white heat
sink compound off.
Now hold the board at an oblique angle to a light
source and check
for cracks in the ceramic area of the CPU
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I did as you said - I removed the motherboard, and the
heat-sink and examined the CPU. No cracks - it
actually looks like it was made yesterday. I did
notice that there was a LOT of dust and fluff on the
board though.
I cleaned the sockets,
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:34:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Daniel Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [1st] Radius 81/110 (8100) Troubleshooting
I have a Radius 81/110 clone (basically an 8100/110 in
another box) which suddenly died. It was working fine
one day and when I switched it on the next, it failed
to
