Hi all!
I got a mint-condition PB150 some weeks ago and have been duly playing around with it since. I've had the fear in the back of my mind that the HD would give up the magic smoke and sure enough, that happened. Clicks on startup one morning and flickering screen (suggesting it was pulling too much power).
Annoyingly I gave it one more go and BAM, nothing, no power at all.
I've opened the unit (and noticed the PRAM battery is SLIGHTLY furred but not leaking) and pulled the drive. My MacBook wouldn't even think about getting it going over a USB -> IDE adapter - warning that it's pulling too much current. So it's dead, gone, sayonara. Oh well!
I have a IDE to SD card adapter that I've used in a G4 Mac mini and a early-2000s Dell laptop which I have popped in there (with zero expectation it'll work), but now the PB doesn't want to start reliably. I had this same issue when it arrived (wouldn't power on) but with some combination of waiting a while on mains power and removing the battery (which still holds a small amount of charge) it powered up. I've removed the IDE to SD Card adapter.
I tried to take a video but it wouldn't cooperate. What happens when I get it to fire up is the happy Mac chime, then the backlight comes on, but nothing shown, then at the floppy drive clicks once, then a noise I can only describe as a fart sound from the speaker and it turns off. Sometimes if I press the debug button on the back I get Sad Mac chimes but not always.
I've grabbed my multimeter and the PSU is fine, 7.6V.
Any ideas? Could the drive trying to pull a zillion amps have cooked something on the mobo? Or perhaps it's something as simple as a new PRAM battery (recommendations?).
I got a mint-condition PB150 some weeks ago and have been duly playing around with it since. I've had the fear in the back of my mind that the HD would give up the magic smoke and sure enough, that happened. Clicks on startup one morning and flickering screen (suggesting it was pulling too much power).
Annoyingly I gave it one more go and BAM, nothing, no power at all.
I've opened the unit (and noticed the PRAM battery is SLIGHTLY furred but not leaking) and pulled the drive. My MacBook wouldn't even think about getting it going over a USB -> IDE adapter - warning that it's pulling too much current. So it's dead, gone, sayonara. Oh well!
I have a IDE to SD card adapter that I've used in a G4 Mac mini and a early-2000s Dell laptop which I have popped in there (with zero expectation it'll work), but now the PB doesn't want to start reliably. I had this same issue when it arrived (wouldn't power on) but with some combination of waiting a while on mains power and removing the battery (which still holds a small amount of charge) it powered up. I've removed the IDE to SD Card adapter.
I tried to take a video but it wouldn't cooperate. What happens when I get it to fire up is the happy Mac chime, then the backlight comes on, but nothing shown, then at the floppy drive clicks once, then a noise I can only describe as a fart sound from the speaker and it turns off. Sometimes if I press the debug button on the back I get Sad Mac chimes but not always.
I've grabbed my multimeter and the PSU is fine, 7.6V.
Any ideas? Could the drive trying to pull a zillion amps have cooked something on the mobo? Or perhaps it's something as simple as a new PRAM battery (recommendations?).