Some many months ago my beloved 2400c/180/80/1.3 died on me. It just wouldn't power
on, not with the appropriate button, nor with the reset button. I rushed it down to
TechServe (in NYC) and they told me they couldn't diagnose the problem except by
replacing each part one by one, and they didn't have any parts anyway. They suggested
I send it in to Apple for refurbishing. I called Apple, and they said they don't work
on the 2400 anymore. So ... I looked at it, again and again, and then decided to try
what often works when anything goes awry ... kick the damned thing! Well, in this case
kicking wasn't the right thing to do, so I slapped my powerbook smartly on its bottom
.... and lo and behold .... it started, using the reset button. Once on, it stayed on,
and it worked as perfectly as always. When I shut it down, it again did not want to
startup. Sometimes the slap worked and sometimes it didn't. It worked enough for me to
get all my data on zip disks, which is a good thing! But not having my trusty 2400 is
not a good thing. At one point I figured out that if a slap would fix it, then there
must be something loose inside ... so I opened it up. I didn't go too deep inside. I
just wanted to find something obviously unhinged, or maybe burned out. I found nothing
obviously wrong. I did find a loose small screw (perhaps left by the person who
replaced the trackpad many years ago), but it was of no consequence. I finally had to
put my 2400 aside and buy a new G4 iMac. My powerbook sat for a few months in the
closet, and then I just had to try it again. It is not easy to give up on these
wonderful machines! Before the 2400 I had a Duo230, and it stills works like a dream
(I gave it to a friend in Poland, who uses it every day.)I plugged it in, and lo and
behold it seems to have developed the GLOD disease. In my case the green light stays
lit only in one position of the reset button. In other words, press reset one and it's
off, press it again and it's on. Also pressing the reset button produces a faint click
at every other press. I don't know if these symptoms mean anything at all. I tried
Sydney's power reset methods, and nothing good happened. Slapping has stopped working
as well. It is just dead. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be wrong, and
what I might do about it? I would open it up myself if I thought there was something I
could accomplish. I would take it or send it to someone to fix if it didn't cost me an
arm and a leg. Or perhaps this powerbook is ready to be parted out? Everything about
it was in perfect shape, and I've got a zip drive, external floppy, Global Village
modem, and external CD drive as well.Ideas??
Steve
New York City
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