I did open it back up, because that was my first idea, thinking that I didn't put it back together properly (happens alot for me) and it is all connected. What voltages should the pram battery be, and possibly an ammount of amps would help, i can always take an old power adapter and use that to run it (or some other battery pack)
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Cyrus Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > > The boards often have extra pins printed on them, but generally > they're for pre-production testing, or programmer's interfaces and > stuff. > I would just try letting it sit for a while like that one guy said... > Also open it up and make sure the HD and DC board is connected to the > motherboard. It sounds like possibly the DC/Monitor board isn't > connected to the motherboard, and if the fan is connected to the DC > board, that would make sense. You might test the Pram battery for a > charge. As a side note, my Plus works just fine without the Pram > battery installed, not sure if the same goes for the Classic... Anyone > know for sure? > > Cyrus Griffin > -------------------- > Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ > > > > > > On Apr 15, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Christian Wacker wrote: > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
