On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> If the battery is alive and the machine does not start you might try >> cleaning the battery contacts in the holder. Sometimes just spinning >> the >> battery in place is enough to break through the insulating coating >> whatever >> it's nature. > > > And we have a winner! > > IN the spirit of 'What the hell, it can't hurt!' I tried that just > before yanking the battery out to take with me to RatShack to show the > geniuses. (They can deal with pictures or Radio Shack part#'s and > nothing else) > > Spun the battery around a few times, booted like a charm :-) So much for there not being enough humidity in the Arizona air to cause corrosion. :^) Reminds me of how I revived a 300 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 3.5" drive that wouldn't mount last month. Just before I was about to hit it with my last tool, the Sharpie big XXXX-maker, I decided to remove the circuit board on the bottom. Like many newer drives, there's no cable that links to the works inside. Instead, there are rows of springy contacts on the drive and a series of matching pads on the board. I made everything that was dark-looking in the contact areas nice and shiny, screwed the board back onto the drive, plugged the drive into a USB port on my iMac with my Newer Tech USB 2.0 Universal Driver Adapter (non-paid ad plug for a great tool), and activated Drive Genius 2. Lo and behold, the drive spun up, mounted and proceeded to pass every test I could throw at it. Whew, another big-gig drive saved! Moral of these two stories: clean contacts, clean contacts, clean contacts. -- Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
