At 3:19 PM +0200 9/23/02, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>I'm having a little trouble with my PowerBook 1400C (333 MHz G3, 64 MB RAM,
>OS Z1-9.1, internal Ethernet and Zip100).
>
>Unitl about a month ago it was working fine. Since then, it was at a
>friend's house, who left it on a shelf, unused, with the battery inserted
>but the AC adapter unplugged. When I picked it up and tried to start it, it
>just sat there.
>
>When I plug in the original Apple power brick, it doesn't respond at all.
>When I try it with the MadsonLine micro-adapter, the speaker pops at a
>steady rate, as if it were trying to start up. Sometimes, the screen sort of
>flashes, too.
>
>Since I suspected it was a power manager problem due to the batteries
>running out, I tried leaving it without power overnight, leaving it without
>power with the power key depressed for a day, and all the key combos for
>resetting the power manager. Still no go.
>
>So, anyone else have any ideas or suggestions, before I dig up my spare
>1400/133 and harvest it for parts?
I'd try booting it with the battery out, just using the AC adapter.
Perhaps the people who left it on the shelf had it on sleep, and the
battery was completely discharged and died.
Paul
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