Well... I would like to clear up a bunch of things. 1: the screen appears to get power, but it does not display an image. 2: the HDD does spin up, but won't read 3: The HDD was pulled from a perfectly fine install on a PowerMac 6100 with system 7.5.5 on it 4: The HDD is a 250mb 3.5" SCSI drive, with the same configuration to make it work in the PowerMac (SCSI ID 0)
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Nico Vanden Eynde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > All Compact Macs ( from 128K to Classic II with the exception of the Colour > Classic ) can boot without Pram battery installed. > Capacitor problems are well known with SE/30 and Classic II. > Other Compact Macs don't seem to suffer much from capacitor issues as they > don't use SMD capacitors on their logic board ( or almost none to be 100% > corrrect ). > > If you have to leave it on for 5 minutes or so before it boots and power > off/on again then your logic board or Analog board has faulty capacitors. > This has nothing to do with the PRAM Battery. > > The Pram battery is necessary in the Colour Classic, most of the Performa's, > The Mac II series, Imacs, ... So where you can soft-start the computer from > the keyboard. Without good Pram battery: these systems are dead. > > Also I don't see why you should make things difficult to replace the Pram > battery by something else: it's standard 1/2 AA battery. > Almost every good electronics shop carries these for less than 8US$ at most, > you also easily find them on Ebay. > > > Regards, > > > Nico > > ---------- > > On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Christian Wacker wrote: > >> >> Well... it doesn't have a good battery right now, if i remove it, will >> it boot without me having to have it on for a few minutes before then? >> could it also not be booting because i put a 250mb hdd in instead of >> the 40mb one that died? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
