On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 16:10 Pacific/Auckland, Joey Morin wrote:
Yep, worked great on my classic II.
This one time, at band camp, Michael Railton said:
Pull the motherboard out. Take the battery out. Then wash the motherboard and dry well.
not that i'm averse to unorthodox solutions, but really? have you had success with this?
i ask, because i have a CCII with a similar problem. rather than the
checkerboard, this one gets as far as a moveable mouse pointer on a blue
desktop. it stops short of the litte picture of a diskette with the
flashing question mark.
i checked the battery, and found it to be COMPLETELY dead. absolute zero
volts. i replaced it, but get no better results. is there some special
procedure to undergo when changing a completely dead battery?
It has something to do with capacitor leakage, and cleaning the board does the trick although the caps will eventually need to be replaced.
mike
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