Hi all,
I am the original owner of a TAM that I bought when the price fell to 1995 USD and I used regularly it until 2004. Since I have had some bad experience with exploding capacitor and battery on a Mac SE/30 (discovered it a few days ago) I needed to check the TAM. I remember it always could be started using the Apple Ergo Keyboard.
After I setting up the Bose Box and connected the power cord to it, I plugged the keyboard in and immediately while doing this, the TAM came back to live. After all those years, okay everything fine, not so. The system runs a Crescendo Accelerator at 400 MHz and has 128 GB of RAM, an USB PCI card and an Ethernet Communications card. I did also clone the 2GB (still own it) HD to a 10 GB HD.
But the TAM did not boot, it showed the Welcome to Mac OS 9.1 loading screen indefinitively. No boot. In a form I read okay kill the PRAM so I used the key combination and oh, the TAM did boot and I saw all my files from 2004, all okay, I did shut it down again and tried to restart it using the keyboard. Nothing. I unplugged the cable and the TAM started up and hung again at the Welcom to Mac OS 9.1 screen. And my 10 GB HD seems to have lost it, and showed the question mark sign.
I was able to boot the TAM from a HDD copy and could also connect the not working 10 GB disk using an USB case, files are all there. I cloned all the files from the backup disk to a newer 80 GB Seagate Momentus 5400.3, all worked well, but after shutting down the TAM, same story, I cannot power on the machine using the keyboard.
I found out that unplugging the keyboard cable power the TAM and after a few more tries I also found out, the TAM only boots if I hit the options key. So unplugging the keyboard and plugging it in and hitting the command key boots the TAM, but this is not an ideal situation.
Any thoughts what can cause this? I understand that the Computer Clock Battery should be bad but can a bad battery cause all this? I also noticed after the first time I could boot the TAM, the date was set to 27.08.1956 (no clue what this date was) but I could set the clock and after the additional attempts to start the TAM using my weird method, the date was still current but the time changed.
I do not have a source for a replacement computer clock battery, the original Rayovac 4.5 V velcro attached battery (did not leak) is still plugged in. Would replacing the battery solve all the weird boot issues with my TAM?
I would like to have it restored to working conditions without any weird tricks, as it was back in 2004 (I did power it on a few years ago and back then, there were no such issues, no leaked capacitors, as far as I can tell).
I am the original owner of a TAM that I bought when the price fell to 1995 USD and I used regularly it until 2004. Since I have had some bad experience with exploding capacitor and battery on a Mac SE/30 (discovered it a few days ago) I needed to check the TAM. I remember it always could be started using the Apple Ergo Keyboard.
After I setting up the Bose Box and connected the power cord to it, I plugged the keyboard in and immediately while doing this, the TAM came back to live. After all those years, okay everything fine, not so. The system runs a Crescendo Accelerator at 400 MHz and has 128 GB of RAM, an USB PCI card and an Ethernet Communications card. I did also clone the 2GB (still own it) HD to a 10 GB HD.
But the TAM did not boot, it showed the Welcome to Mac OS 9.1 loading screen indefinitively. No boot. In a form I read okay kill the PRAM so I used the key combination and oh, the TAM did boot and I saw all my files from 2004, all okay, I did shut it down again and tried to restart it using the keyboard. Nothing. I unplugged the cable and the TAM started up and hung again at the Welcom to Mac OS 9.1 screen. And my 10 GB HD seems to have lost it, and showed the question mark sign.
I was able to boot the TAM from a HDD copy and could also connect the not working 10 GB disk using an USB case, files are all there. I cloned all the files from the backup disk to a newer 80 GB Seagate Momentus 5400.3, all worked well, but after shutting down the TAM, same story, I cannot power on the machine using the keyboard.
I found out that unplugging the keyboard cable power the TAM and after a few more tries I also found out, the TAM only boots if I hit the options key. So unplugging the keyboard and plugging it in and hitting the command key boots the TAM, but this is not an ideal situation.
Any thoughts what can cause this? I understand that the Computer Clock Battery should be bad but can a bad battery cause all this? I also noticed after the first time I could boot the TAM, the date was set to 27.08.1956 (no clue what this date was) but I could set the clock and after the additional attempts to start the TAM using my weird method, the date was still current but the time changed.
I do not have a source for a replacement computer clock battery, the original Rayovac 4.5 V velcro attached battery (did not leak) is still plugged in. Would replacing the battery solve all the weird boot issues with my TAM?
I would like to have it restored to working conditions without any weird tricks, as it was back in 2004 (I did power it on a few years ago and back then, there were no such issues, no leaked capacitors, as far as I can tell).
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