Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system from turning on?
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This morning I went to clean it up and get it going, and plugged it all in and....not a damn thing happens when I press the power switch. No response at all. I cannot locate my %...@$@# multimeter right now so I can't test the battery, but I pressed the cuda, removed the battery for a while pressed the cuda and tried restarting it. Nada. Same if I remove the battery. I know that low PRAM batteries can prevent booting in at least Beige G3's, but I thought they would all boot if there was no battery at all. Anyone have a pinout of the switch cable? I'm wondering if I can bypass the switch assembly, take at least ONE thing out of the loop for testing, or is this just a dead PS? I've got some units I can part- swap for testing, but they're at work, and I'm stuck at home today waiting on UPS. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
