4 Nov
1999
4 Nov
'99
10:17 a.m.
At 7:40pm +0000 1999/11/04, Tony Duell wrote:
Is this the white tower case, a little larger than the
Daybreak? If so,
there's a pile of fuses inside, some of them on the 'frontpanel' board,
others in the PSU, etc. Check them. IIRC one of the fuses seems to blow
for no good reason and causes exactly this problem.
Thank you! There is a row of five fuses behind the right panel, between
the floppy and hard drives. I had initially just looked at them, and they
looked fine, but on testing, the frontmost of them (1/4A) was indeed
open. Once I replaced it, on powering up, the LEDs cycled rapidly for a
few seconds and then returned to 0000 -- and the fuse was open. I tried
twice more, and in both cases the fuse blew instantly upon plugging in
the machine (with the power switch still off). The I (probably foolishly)
put in a 1A fuse and watched it glow orange for a quarter second before I
disconnected.
I'll most likely have to set this machine aside until I have the time and
knowledge to attack it properly.
Did you lock the disk heads before moving the machine
and unlock them
afterwards? Worth checking...
It had been moved before I got it, so there is still the possibility of
disk damage, but I'm not that far yet.
--
Kevin Schoedel
schoedel(a)kw.igs.net