Portable Sad Mac

[LarBob]

My backlit Portable was having an issue where it wouldn't turn on sometimes and I had to mess with it a bunch in order to convince it to turn on. I took it apart and cleaned the board (some goop) and put it back together and I'm getting this Sad Mac. I was wondering if someone with more knowledge could help me here. It apparently means the ROM check failed. Any ideas?


Thanks so much!

 

[techknight]

as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent. 

These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery! 

 

[LarBob]

as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent. 

These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery! 

I've gotten it a good battery from alaska360. I definitely do need to give it a recap, it had some goop that I removed from the board. Should I just get caps off of ebay or is there a better place?

 

[just.in.time]

as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent.

These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery!

This, along with don't even attempt to power it up without new caps, could definitely be a candidate for a pinned item in this sub.