Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:21:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Baret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
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.
The power-on circuitry on the IIci and IIcx are dependent on some capacitors on the motherboard charging up properly. With age those caps deteriorate. My guess is that you have some bad caps on the motherboard and it took them a very long time to reach a large enough charge to start the machine up. I suspect that if you left it unplugged for a while, you'd find the old symptoms back.
That's my guess, but it really is just a guess. But on old stuff like that, deteriorated caps is always a high probability bet.
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