Subject: Dead 140
Afternoon all New poster
I have a PowerBook 140 that (after sitting in a closet for a couple of years) won't boot up - no chimes, no drive whirr, nothin' either on battery or the cord or both.
Have you tried resetting the power management settings? Apple has a til on it and for the life of myself, I can not remember how to do it offhand despite owning six 1xx machines some in various states of completeness. Surely someone will know offhand but otherwise, apple does have a til on resetting the power management settings on older powerbooks and the 1xx series is in there somewhere.
I have: - Tried three different main batteries and three different power cords. A PowerBook 160 will boot from the cord with or without two of the three batteries (the third battery will stop it from booting up as well)
Resetting power management on the 160 will fix that as will battery amnesia which will help to recondition the battery after repetitive uses such the powerbook may be able to run by itself on solely the battery and at the least get the machine to recognize the battery.
- Replaced the lithium battery inside with a fresh 3V one. - Tried to search around both Google and this list's archives.
There was some mention of a fuse - where?
I need to know myself in order to replace one on my frankenstein 145 top and 145b bottom...
Any other suggestions? Brian
PS If it is toast - how many components can I use as spares for the 160? ram, drives, modem, screen, keyboard, trackball?
-Ram from a 160 is plenty fast for a 140 but I do not think the 140 will take the ram from the 160 with a slightly lower (faster) nanoseconds access time spec.
-Hard drive is definitely a check as they are quite expensive for their age.
-Modem should work as well as the the keyboard, floppy drive, and trackball assembly.
-I do not know about the screen as the only time I have performed a screen swap, both powerbooks (donor and patient) were from the 140, 145, 145b group of powerbooks which meant that they would obviously work.
Any other comments on what I missed...
Dave
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