Just for the heck of it, check the Auto On/Off Control Panel and see
if it had a setting for scheduled autoboot. Don't know why it would
not have started when you hit the hotbutton on the ADB keyboard
manually, though.
At 8:21 PM -0700 7/8/05, Scott Baret wrote:
Hi,
I've worked in IT since 1992 and have operated on
several Macs from Pluses and Classics to iMacs and
Power Macs. However, nothing has been as strange as
what happened today.
Prior to today, the strangest moment was in 1993 when
I fixed a Classic with a "dead hard drive" by
unplugging a mouse. Turned out the mouse had a stuck
button and was rejecting all disks--from known good
6.0.8 floppies through the internal hard disk. If only
I had known about the internal ROM disk at that point.
Until today, I thought nothing could get stranger than
that Classic. Turns out I was wrong.
Yesterday I started my final project as a school IT
guy (I'm retiring in August). This project is to wipe
the hard drives of all the Macs so they can go to a
charity (the school will be 95% PC next year), and
they called me in to do this since I was the last
remaining Mac admin and had a few months left on my
contract.
One machine I tested yesterday was a IIcx. No power.
Another was a IIci. Power but no video in either the
integrated or the NuBus card I tried. I marked both as
broken and went home for the day. That night I came up
with the idea of putting the IIci power supply in the
IIcx since they were interchangeable.
Fast forward to today at about 11:00 AM. After lots of
pushing and pulling (IIc series power supplies are a
pain to remove) I got the big bricks out of both. The
IIci supply snapped in nicely into the IIcx. I plugged
in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and then turned the
machine on. Nothing. I tried hitting both the triangle
key and the circular button on the back. Nothing.
Tried a few more times then I gave up, going instead
to work on some 5200s.
About an hour later I was working on a 5200 whose back
was to the IIcx's back (the table was a square). I
went around back to pull the hard drive and suddenly I
felt a random burst of cool air. I thought "that's
bizzare" and then was in for a bigger shock. The IIcx
had turned on ALL BY ITSELF!!! I shook my head,
thinking I was dreaming. Nope, the IIcx had indeed
turned on all by itself. No startup chime or anything.
I went around front to look at it. It started up fine.
Wiped the disk and then shut it down. Tried starting
it up again. This time it worked.
So now I've got a working yet possessed IIcx. I'm
debating about what to say to the guy who runs the
charity. I now have it listed as "working and wiped".
The only problem it has is a dead internal speaker.
This explains why I didn't hear it. It works fine with
externals.
I am wondering if anyone has a rationalization behind
this IIcx. I am normally a rationalist and swear by
common sense, but this case is just like something out
of the Twlight Zone.
Scott
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