scott
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I finally found some free time to rebuild my old IIci... The plan is to install A/UX 2.0 - something I've been putting off since around January of 2005. Unfortunately, my IIci is not cooperating.
Everything was going fine on Monday morning... The IIci fired up with no issues, and confirmed my suspicions that the hard drive was dead. I replaced the drive, and created the installation media, then powered the IIci back on... Nothing happened. No chime. The power supply fan did not spin. The system behaved as though it was not plugged in.
I unplugged it, and held the power button in to bleed out the capacitors in the power supply, then plugged it back in. Still nothing. I removed the hard drive, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, monitor, cache card, and network card... Nothing. Removed and reseated the power supply... Nothing worked.
Now, here's the real kicker... It worked fine the next morning.
If this was the end of the story, I probably would not have bothered posting it... The bugger did the same thing again today. It worked fine for a few hours, then flaked out again. I expect/hope it will fire up again tomorrow morning.
I have checked the board for leaking capacitors, and do not see any obvious signs... No brown sludge around the caps. However, the dust does seem to cluster around the caps. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue with a IIci / IIcx? Am I looking at a power supply issue, or a mainboard?
Everything was going fine on Monday morning... The IIci fired up with no issues, and confirmed my suspicions that the hard drive was dead. I replaced the drive, and created the installation media, then powered the IIci back on... Nothing happened. No chime. The power supply fan did not spin. The system behaved as though it was not plugged in.
I unplugged it, and held the power button in to bleed out the capacitors in the power supply, then plugged it back in. Still nothing. I removed the hard drive, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, monitor, cache card, and network card... Nothing. Removed and reseated the power supply... Nothing worked.
Now, here's the real kicker... It worked fine the next morning.
If this was the end of the story, I probably would not have bothered posting it... The bugger did the same thing again today. It worked fine for a few hours, then flaked out again. I expect/hope it will fire up again tomorrow morning.
I have checked the board for leaking capacitors, and do not see any obvious signs... No brown sludge around the caps. However, the dust does seem to cluster around the caps. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue with a IIci / IIcx? Am I looking at a power supply issue, or a mainboard?