I have the same problem with my Mac Portable but I havent had much time to tinker with
it.
Have you replaced the 9 volt battery? I'm wondering if that might have something to do
with it in some strange, phases-of-the-moon way.
Tony
(this is my hit the home email from work route, dont reply to this email address)
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On 20 Aug 98 14:56:48 EDT Marion Bates wrote:
--- Tom Owad wrote:
Can someone tell me what the output of the Mac
Portable battery charger
should
be? (What I should read across the charger contacts?) When I plug it in
using a
known-good AC adapter, then place the battery on it, there's no LED glow.
It's most likely the same as the Mac Portable's power adapter, which is
7.5vdc, 1.5A.
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Thanks for the info. Actually, according to Apple Service Source docs (found 'em after
I posted the question) the charger puts out about a volt less. The power adapter itself is
fine, but the external charger seems to be fried.
I have a more pressing problem now. Basically, the computer has a grand mal seizure
whenever the internal hard drive is connected.
I've got three semi-functional Portables, and am hoping to wind up with at least one
that works. But they all seem to have bad hard disks (Apple 40SC internal) -- if the drive
is connected at power-up, it makes a tick-tick-tick noise, the screen flashes, and it
repeatedly plays interrupted Death Chimes until I turn it off. The drive never actually
spins up.
I'm not familiar with that hard drive model. Since there's no separate power
cable, I assume it's some sort of funky low-power-combined-with-SCSI thing. So, anyone
got any ideas about what to do with them (besides drop-kick 'em into a swimming pool)?
Is there some goofy reset I can do, or a bad fuse somewhere to replace?
If there's no repair possible, then is there any other kind of hard drive that will
work in a Portable? Or does someone have a spare they'd sell/trade?
-- MB
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