On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
> ... Sometimes I've found that a perfectly sound, sweet-running Mac > will go absolutely dead after sitting for a period of weeks or months, > especially if it's been stored in an unheated room or storage place, > such as a garage. Nah, this was on the floor of my office in the house, not 15 feet from where it had been running for years. > Every time, the battery still had more than 3 > volts ... but the power supply is a goner. I've taken apart a few and > could find nothing obviously wrong, other than some "tin whiskers." > Removing as many as I could once or twice, I fergit, revived the PS. > My theory is that humidity does stuff to the innards of power supplies > that renders them dead the first time AC juice is poured back into > 'em. > > Let's hope yours has only a dead PRAM battery. Got another one you can > swap in? I"ll pick one up later, and I have a couple of boxes in the surplus pile at work I can swap parts out of to see what's broken. GigE's take the same PS as a Sawtooth, I'm pretty sure, right? -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
