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The 2400 of Death

TheNeil

Well-known member
Managed to get a replacement power board for my 2400 (thanks to a nameless soul on here who pointed me in the right direction ;) )

All fitted, power applied and...still GLOD :'(

This kind of makes me think that it must be something else (well, durr), but anybody got ideas what?

 

beachycove

Well-known member
Now THAT is a shame. Mind booted right up first time on replacement of the power board.

I assume that you have done the usual reset of the power manager?

 

TheNeil

Well-known member
Yep - held the reset button in for 30 seconds with power applied, power not applied, battery in, battery out etc. but nadda, zip, nowt, nothing...just the ever glowing green light :'(

 

Byrd

Well-known member
Motherboard fuses - there are about six that need checking/replacing ... see the 2400c mailing list on info regarding this, let me know if you have difficulty finding the posts, I'll have a look for you!

JB

 

Franklinstein

Well-known member
That's quite unfortunate. All of mine have worked when their replacements arrived.

To that end, I've had three machines fail to GLoD, all resurrected. One was fixed by replacing a bad fuse and removing the inner frame to install parts onto it, in order to ensure that all boards were 100% seated (on my pre-production machine, the power board didn't like to seat properly otherwise).

One was cured by replacing the power board. The last was cured by replacing the processor daughter card (with an original 180MHz part).

A fuse check is undoubtedly a good idea, as replacing an SMT fuse is much cheaper and easier than buying a new board.

If they all check good, make sure everything is properly seated.

If that's ok, then perhaps now would be a good time to search for a G3 upgrade on eBay.

If nothing else, camp out on eBay until a bad 2400c shows up and buy it. I've purchased complete dead ones for less than $40 more than once. There's a good chance that a complete dead one will not have the same failure as your current machine, so at least you'd have one working one once you've transferred parts.

 
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