Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:26:04 -0500 From: Michael Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PT 180e trouble Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all, Talking on experience: See below >>> Anthony wrote: >>> I have a Power Tower 180e that I wish to revive but >>> cannot get anywhere with it. >> Hiya Anthony.. >> Pull the cache dimm located on the motherboard >> parallel to and immediately beside the CPU >> daughtercard. >> Boot it up after doing this and then get back to us. >> Cheers...Michael >I was about to suggest that, but Anthony's saying the >drives dont spin up, not that he hears, and I dont >believe a bad cache would "reach that far >back" in the start up process to keep a drive from >spinning up. >Still, nothing to lose at this point - yank that sucker >out! >Michael Russo Earlier this year I took with me from Oz to Italy a PowerWave/132 upgraded to 200MHz for my cousin to use with her Universities studies. I tested the unit in Australia and it worked fine, but when it arrived in Italy it refused to work. I, unfortunately, then didn't have the time to troubleshoot the machine, but I sent to her from Australia, later on, a full set of replacements. She replaced video card, CPU card, and RAM chips, but it was a no go. She also claimed that after a couple of attempts she couldn't hear the HDD spinning anymore. A couple of weeks ago I came again to Italy and brought yet another set of replacements, they weren't needed, though. Why? 1) The defective (or maybe not compatible) component was indeed the L2 cache module, original Apple and from a PM8600 (256Kb). 2) The non spinning HDD did actually puzzled me at first. It was in fact a perfectly working Quantum Fireball, when it had left home. Now all I had was a flashing question mark. The problem, believe it or not was that the HDD was actually disconnected from the Powercord. After a bit of troubleshooting it is not to difficult to forget to replug some bits and pieces. I do not mean to offend, just check it. For the rest I second our two Micheals: remove L2 cahe module, reseat the CPU card, and if it still doesn't work remove all RAM and test one DIMM at a time. I noticed that, compared to the 30 or 72 pins RAM SIMMs, the 168pins DIMMs have a much greater failure rate. Well, at least in my limited experience. HTH Cheers Andrea __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
