I am hoping one of you good folks can help me out. My daughter's S900 will not boot up. This a *long* story that I'll try to keep short. When trying to boot from a CD a few week back, the S900 would fire up and I'd hear the chime, but the monitor would not come on and I couldn't complete a boot. Using another machine, I verified that monitor and graphics card (IXMicro) were working. I tried booting with each of my cards, disks and periphericals taken out of the picture. No joy. I removed all the RAM (except that soldered to the motherboard) and retried.
I began to have episodes where the power would not come up at all until I'd pushed the power up button several times. I started suspecting the power supply. I took it out and a friend and I gave it a thorough examination - nothing obvious wrong. When I went to reinstall, the power would no longer come up at all - no fan, no chime; just a quick flash of LED's and slight movement of the fan. Strongly suspecting the power supply, now, I won a bid for one on EBay. It arrived today, but the behavior is exactly the same. Meanwhile, I'd also replaced the PRAM battery. Now I am assuming that something is wrong in the motherboard. My question to you all is: can you suggest anything else to try before I go out and try to score a motherboard or whole other S900? This machine has been good to me and, now, to my daughter. I would sure like to get it back on its feet. I had just installed a new G3/500, more RAM and OS 9.1. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. - Gary -- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
