I will be retiring my G3-equipped 2400 from use very soon, if you'd
be interested in buying the processor daughtercard, or the whole
machine. I also have an inoperable NewerTech G3 card that I'd be
happy to sell for next to nothing to anyone who thinks they can fix
it.
-Joe
At 12:00 PM -0800 1/14/11,
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:53:11 +0100
From: Stefan Kiltz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DuoList] 2x 2400 GLOD after long time non-use
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Hiya people at the duolist,
long time lurker here with a question to all techies out there. I have
two Comets (bog-standard PPC603e 180MHz) not working anymore. Thought
I fried the CPU card with the first one. The second one worked fine
all the way to me putting it on a shelf for a year. After re-plugging
the power, all I get is the dreaded GLOD, followed by a faint (sort of
rattling) noise originating vom the power supply daughterboard.
Thanks to Ralph Mawyer, who sold me one of his 603e CPU cards, I can
rule out a CPU failure.
Since working with electronics for quite some time (not professionally
though), I know that capacitors, in particular the electrolyte
capacitors, have a tendency to dry out and losing their capacity.
Could it be, that the big capacitors on the power supply daughter card
may have gone faulty?
Second question would be if any of you people sees a chance to bring
my NewerTech G3 upgrades back to life - back in the olden day, the
first 2400 was my mainstay and I paid a lot of money for that
NewerTech 240MHz G3. I believe it ran too hot, though not seeing any
signs of excessive heat on the dye/heatsink plate. Maybe some sort of
SMD fuse or resistore acting as one needs to be replaced?
I'd really love to put them Comets back into action again, ideally
with the G3 upgrade, which seems to be resembling gold dust these days.
I'd really appreciate any tips or directions where to dig deeper.
TaRa
Stefan
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