Hey everyone, FIrst time poster here. :scrambled:
I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction as to what I should do with my PowerBook 180. Back in high school, one of my friends sold it to me for the hefty sum of $1 (CAD), and everything seemed to be in good working condition except the hard drive was not recognized when I tried to install System 7. Afterwards, the sad little mac spent a great quantity of time in my parent's cellar in storage. Not that big a deal for one dollar, I thought.
Now, 4 years and 7 semesters of university later, I'm back at my parents place visiting for Thanksgiving; and I thought I would make another attempt at reviving this beast.
That being said, I'll take you through the various "repair" states that I've gone through to hopefully make it easy to give some sort of a diagnostic:
1) Removed everything
2) Put it all back together except for the top part containing the keyboard and screen. When I start the computer I hear some weird "static" noises, the floppy drive starting, and then a thin trail of smoke started rising from underneath the daughterboard.
3) Removed everything again to find the source of the smoke – found nothing.
4) Put everything back. Started the computer – I hear the floppy drive starting to work but then the computer shuts down immediately after.
5) Took apart the floppy drive (I have no idea why I did this)
6) Floppy drive no longer makes any noise when I start up the computer (lol)
7) Started the computer lots – I got a lot of weird things happening from the start up chime sounding like a Nine-Inch-Nails-esque distorted sound to a really, angry sine tone being played from the speaker until I unplugged the power
8) Finally got the regular startup chime, soon followed by the chimes of death (we're getting somewhere!)
9) Repositioned the RAM on top of the daughterboard
So after this last step, the startup chime is heard, the screen turns on, and after a split second of seeing the cursor the screen will go to a blank screen with some lines running across it. The speaker plays a low-frequency buzzing noise, and I no longer hear any activity from the inside of the computer. Also, the floppy drive doesn't seem to do anything ever since I took it apart.
I'm not giving up on this baby yet; and this seemed like an excellent resource for some advice. Can anyone direct me to links/threads where these kinds of issues arose? Or would anyone be able to give me some pointers as to what I should do next?
Thanks,
niv
I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction as to what I should do with my PowerBook 180. Back in high school, one of my friends sold it to me for the hefty sum of $1 (CAD), and everything seemed to be in good working condition except the hard drive was not recognized when I tried to install System 7. Afterwards, the sad little mac spent a great quantity of time in my parent's cellar in storage. Not that big a deal for one dollar, I thought.
Now, 4 years and 7 semesters of university later, I'm back at my parents place visiting for Thanksgiving; and I thought I would make another attempt at reviving this beast.
That being said, I'll take you through the various "repair" states that I've gone through to hopefully make it easy to give some sort of a diagnostic:
1) Removed everything
2) Put it all back together except for the top part containing the keyboard and screen. When I start the computer I hear some weird "static" noises, the floppy drive starting, and then a thin trail of smoke started rising from underneath the daughterboard.
3) Removed everything again to find the source of the smoke – found nothing.
4) Put everything back. Started the computer – I hear the floppy drive starting to work but then the computer shuts down immediately after.
5) Took apart the floppy drive (I have no idea why I did this)
6) Floppy drive no longer makes any noise when I start up the computer (lol)
7) Started the computer lots – I got a lot of weird things happening from the start up chime sounding like a Nine-Inch-Nails-esque distorted sound to a really, angry sine tone being played from the speaker until I unplugged the power
8) Finally got the regular startup chime, soon followed by the chimes of death (we're getting somewhere!)
9) Repositioned the RAM on top of the daughterboard
So after this last step, the startup chime is heard, the screen turns on, and after a split second of seeing the cursor the screen will go to a blank screen with some lines running across it. The speaker plays a low-frequency buzzing noise, and I no longer hear any activity from the inside of the computer. Also, the floppy drive doesn't seem to do anything ever since I took it apart.
I'm not giving up on this baby yet; and this seemed like an excellent resource for some advice. Can anyone direct me to links/threads where these kinds of issues arose? Or would anyone be able to give me some pointers as to what I should do next?
Thanks,
niv