On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:44 PM, Helen Merrick wrote:
Hi all,
Woke up this morning and it looks like there was a power cut over
night - all computers are turned off (all were surge protected)
My Quicksilver g4, however, is not happy - I press the power button
and it lights for 2 secs but nothing else happens.
I figure this is a power supply problem? Does this sound right or
could it be worse?
The machine is still under Applecare but I'd appreciate any opinions
and/or guesses before trapsing up to nedlands
cheers,
Looks like you have the same problem that Stewart Woods had:
You could try reset the CUDA chip on the logic board. Remove the
battery and power cord, wait for 10-15 minutes and then press the
little black button (should be close to where the battery was). That
hopefully will solve you problem.
That button is the CUDA reset kind of like a master PRAM reset
from apple knowledge base:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95065
The Cuda is a microcontroller chip on the Power Macintosh G4 (PCI
Graphics) logic board. Whenever you have a Power Macintosh G4 (PCI
Graphics) computer that fails to power up, you should follow this
procedure before replacing any modules. This article explains how to
reset the Cuda chip on the Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics).
Geoffrey Stormzand
storm.Consulting
702.493.9400
Las Vegas, NV USA
http://mac.stormconsultingLV.com
