These are identical symptoms to what I've also experienced. As I've said in
previous posts I was sure it was terminal the first time I went through a
progressive deterioration to what appeared as "death". In fact I only
reassembled my 2400 after leaving it apart for 3-4 months (and even notified
MCE of a dead Newer G3 card) to bring it back to the USA on a planned trip.
I plugged in the AC power and, apart from my weird HD directory problems,
the 2400 has been great ever since.
You have two procedures.
SIMPLE--Without taking it apart, pull battery, pull AC, let sit 2-3 days.
Reset Power Manager for 40-60 sec. You should not get any green light as
everything should be completely discharged. Then connect AC only (you must
have a reliable power supply) and press power button for a normal restart.
COMPLEX--take 2400 apart. Check seating of CPU and RAM cards, all cables and
screws. Leave disassembled for a few days to discharge everything.
Reassemble. Follow above procedures.
Well over 50 pct chance it will boot successfully. If it doesn't work, let
it sit a week, battery out and AC disconnected and try again (assuming
you've checked the innards).
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Sidney Ho
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> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:46:08 -0700
> From: "Ed B. Hash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: DuoDigest - Number 428
>
> Paul (and everyone else),
>
> I'm intrigued by your statement that you've never met a 2400 that you
> couldn't resurrect. My 2400 recently quit starting up for me. Over a few
> days it got harder to start up. It wouldn't power up every time I'd hit the
> power key, sometimes I'd have to press the reset button on the back or press
> command-control-power key. But now it won't start up at all. When I press
> the power key I can hear a faint click from the speaker but there is no
> chime and the screen remains dark.
>
> I took it in to AMUG, the tech diagnosed it and said it's the logic board. I
> don't know how much troubleshooting he did. Probably not much.
>
> So what do you think? Any suggestions? Can you help me?
>
> Ed
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