On 6/18/09 2:14 PM, Bruce Johnson of [email protected] sent
>
> 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.
(end quote)
Hi Bruce,
This happened to me twice, once with a QS and once with a DA (perhaps close
enough in "genus" to a Gigabit?). In both cases I had no luck doing what you
did ("quick"-my interpretation-pullout of the battery and CUDA reset), and
did have luck unplugging the PSU from the motherboard, pulling the battery,
resetting the CUDA (long push, 3 seconds), waiting 15 minutes, then plugging
the PSU back into the motherboard. Both instances resulted in firing up.
If that does not work my first suspicion is a leaky capacitor in the PSU.
Best wishes,
Dana
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