I bought a used Minolta AF-2920 off of ebay in untested condition for use with my beige G3/MacOS 9.2.2. I knew it was a gamble.
When I received it, there was no sign of power other than a very brief motor noise when power was supplied and the power button turned on. Being as how there was no returns and no guarantees, I opened it up and found one of two thin ribbon cables disconnected. Once I plugged that back in, the status light on the front started working.
Currently the power LED blinks about once a second and each time it is turned on the scanner carriage servo inside turns a couple of degrees and then stops. After that, it doesn't do anything and never completes initialization. Likewise the scanner software doesn't detect the scanner.
I looked over all the capacitors with a good light and magnifying glasses and didn't find any that were obviously leaking or corroded.
Some of the documentation talks about a locking screw or pin that locks the scanner mechanism but I couldn't find it, and I'm able to gently turn the servo and move the mechanism with the power off with no binding.
Not having a schematic, I checked a couple of spots that were marked VCC and saw 5VDC to ground. That's as far as I got probing around.
What do you guys think?
When I received it, there was no sign of power other than a very brief motor noise when power was supplied and the power button turned on. Being as how there was no returns and no guarantees, I opened it up and found one of two thin ribbon cables disconnected. Once I plugged that back in, the status light on the front started working.
Currently the power LED blinks about once a second and each time it is turned on the scanner carriage servo inside turns a couple of degrees and then stops. After that, it doesn't do anything and never completes initialization. Likewise the scanner software doesn't detect the scanner.
I looked over all the capacitors with a good light and magnifying glasses and didn't find any that were obviously leaking or corroded.
Some of the documentation talks about a locking screw or pin that locks the scanner mechanism but I couldn't find it, and I'm able to gently turn the servo and move the mechanism with the power off with no binding.
Not having a schematic, I checked a couple of spots that were marked VCC and saw 5VDC to ground. That's as far as I got probing around.
What do you guys think?
