I've experienced a somewhat similar problem and the culprit was the power
adapter which once when changed made the problem go away.
I replaced the adapter by buying a new one directly from Apple.
Does anyone know if the adapter for the G3 series will work with the
2400c without causing any damage?
On 2/14/00 7:39 AM, Sidney Ho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>
>On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Paul S Vail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied to
>
>>>Or so I thought ..... 2 days later I could no longer stand the mocking
>>>visage of my dead PB2400 and I plugged the thing in. Hello, it perks right
up,
>>>loads the OS and now it is running fine.
>>>
>>>Any ideas about what is going on here?
>>
>> Ya know, kids, is it entirely possible some kind of intermittant contact
>> occurs in the battery bay? Like the bandaid fix for the 3400s? I've not
>> encountered a 2400 I couldn't resurrect (sometimes it took the old
>> _take_it_all_apart_then_back_together fix... but I do this for a living
>> so the screw matrix doesn't bother me anymore). You folks who play with
>> these things daily -- notice any coincedence with your battery bay?
>>
>> paul
>>
>In an earlier reply to this thread I said:
>Another (unverified) suspicion I have is that a frayed AC adapter wire
>can also contribute to this sudden "corruption" problem (for lack of a
>better descriptive term). In short, the "green light of death" is less
>terminal than it may seem.
>
>To Paul's comments, to which I wholly agree, I'd add that the screw matrix
>itself can also loosen. The female brass inserts into the plastic molded
>sockets can pull up or out causing the 2400 lower case not to close tightly
>on the battery compartment. This can result in a loose fit of the battery
>and intermittent loss of contact. (The trade-off to excessive tightening
>resulting in the described condition is screws loosening and falling out
>inside a sealed 2400!) In any case, I increasingly suspect an intermittent
>loss of electrical contact can partially corrupt the PM and/or PRAM in the
>2400 resulting in symptoms like a "dying" motherboard or CPU.
>
>A weird variation that I've also experienced three times is that my HD disk
>directory has been corrupted enough not to allow a boot on the 2400, not to
>be repairable by TTPro or NDD5.0, not to allow external SCSI or PC card HD
>drives alternately boot, not to allow a Apple OS CD boot, not to allow the
>external floppy w/Disk Repairs to succeed. Sometimes it booted partially and
>on successive attempts deteriorated until the dreaded flashing "?" appeared.
>Resetting PM & PRAM doesn't help. Yet, swapping the same 6.4g drive to my
>3500 upgraded 3400 boots up perfectly without any repairs at all! Then only
>Disk Warrior can accomplish the "impossible" (or is it the "improbable"?)
>and I have to transplant it back into the 2400. Now consider these symptoms
>while trying to sort out PM, PRAM, CPU, PRAM battery and other possible
>issues. I've seen other listers mention problems (the mysterious,
>inexplicable ones) to which I could have replied, further underling my
>feeling that the 2400 is FAR AND AWAY the most idiosyncratic and
>unpredictable computer I've ever encountered. Letting it sit a while as a
>basket of parts seems to help greatly if you have no fear of the screw
>matrix. It actually can be brought back from the dead (nearly) every time,
>despite showing every sign of being an MB/PB or CPU card or terminal. I
>suspect several listers have paid for unnecessary parts. But living in a
>country where no 2400 service exists forces a little more resourcefulness.
>Unlike Paul who does it for a living voluntarily, I've had to do it for a
>living :).
>
>---
>Sidney Ho
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