6 May
2001
6 May
'01
7:51 p.m.
Can we get back ON TOPIC and talk old computers, such
as how to coax a dead
mac portable to power up? I have one and can get a cracking sound out of the
speaker but nothing else.
My first suspect is often the pram battery or the main battery. If you mean
the original mac portable the main battery and/or PS are always suspect.
BTW an idea I have for the portable is to rebuild the battery using fairly
large capacitors instead of cells, maybe with some sort of current
limiting. The idea is that the batteries will ALWAYS ultimately be a PITA,
and that if I resign myself to always using the AC adapter all I really
need is a bit of smoothing and kick to get the hard drive spinning.