Macdrone
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Got one for price of shipping and plugged it in, hit power and nothing. tested power supply with voltmeter and its juicing as it should. Opened it up and found no caps to speak of as they are all tants on the motherboard. So i pull the screen , keyboard reackball board and it says jedi board (very funny) which I find a corroded 2.4 volt battery. I clipped it off as to clean up the damage and test the trace. Trace is good, question is does it need the battery there to boot? Contacts on the power plug are solid and continuity are good, fuse on motherboard checks solid. So do i need to install pram battery before it will power on or is there something else?