Well... I guess I kill Macs... I now have 1 working Mac in my house, my performa 638... since my 6100 is dead, i am out a PPC mac too... I may look into a new battery, but money is kinda tight right now (hence me not wanting to buy any new tools...) one thing i noticed with my classic, on the far end of the board, it has 15 "pins" printed on the system board, what are those for?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, David Gillies <[email protected]> wrote: > > Christian Wacker wrote: >> i got the case open using a t15 bit, and noticed that it had the 2 top >> screws replaced (unless they are super-shiny and don't match the lower >> ones from the factory) >> now i have a new problem, i airdusted alot of the stuff, and had to >> remove the system board to get the HDD cage out. I replaced the HDD, >> and (i think) i plugged in everything properly, but now it won't boot, >> no chime, no screen, the HDD doesn't stay spun up, it just has a fan >> spinning... Did I forget to plug something in? did i kill the system? >> Do i have a new boat anchor? >> > I had the same problem when I acquired a Mac Classic II recently. If I > left it switched on for about 5 minutes or so it eventually booted up. > Sometimes it would boot successfully, other times it would get the > dreaded 3 vertical bars. > > So my guess was that it seemed the process of disassembling it helped to > kill off the PRAM battery (I guess it was just managing to hold a charge > or something before I pulled it apart?). > > I bought a new PRAM battery, two for AUD14 or something like that off > ebay and since then its been all good. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.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/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
