mloret
Well-known member
Hey guys,
I decided to wave the white flag and ask for help with this Performa 6360 that I recently picked up on Fleabay (I know, I know, I'm regretting it)
So the computer chimes when I power it on and the HDD works fine. However, the floppy and CD player were unresponsive. When I tried to boot from my BlueSCSI (I tried two different ones), I would get to the screen right before the Finder logo and it would just hang up there. The pointer moves so it isn't frozen, but won't get past that point. I decided to try to pop the logic board in my Performa 6300 to see if it would run and there it did nothing. It powered on, but no pointer, no hum of the hard drive nothing. During the process of switching out the logic boards, I noticed that a cap had previously burned up. Interesting. So I ordered a new cap. Nope, wrong size. I rigged a through whole with the correct ratings and gave it a shot. Nope, same behavior. HDD works fine, no CD drive, and I cant boot from BlueSCSI. Incidentally, my BlueSCSI's are the only SCSI devices I own.
So what should I do now? I'm ready to pitch it out the window. Should I recap the entire board and hope for a different result? Because the CD drive isn't doing anything at all, I suspect a power issue but who knows. Any help is appreciated.
I decided to wave the white flag and ask for help with this Performa 6360 that I recently picked up on Fleabay (I know, I know, I'm regretting it)
So the computer chimes when I power it on and the HDD works fine. However, the floppy and CD player were unresponsive. When I tried to boot from my BlueSCSI (I tried two different ones), I would get to the screen right before the Finder logo and it would just hang up there. The pointer moves so it isn't frozen, but won't get past that point. I decided to try to pop the logic board in my Performa 6300 to see if it would run and there it did nothing. It powered on, but no pointer, no hum of the hard drive nothing. During the process of switching out the logic boards, I noticed that a cap had previously burned up. Interesting. So I ordered a new cap. Nope, wrong size. I rigged a through whole with the correct ratings and gave it a shot. Nope, same behavior. HDD works fine, no CD drive, and I cant boot from BlueSCSI. Incidentally, my BlueSCSI's are the only SCSI devices I own.
So what should I do now? I'm ready to pitch it out the window. Should I recap the entire board and hope for a different result? Because the CD drive isn't doing anything at all, I suspect a power issue but who knows. Any help is appreciated.