[Duo2400] What Do I Do?

[Larry Friedman]

Here's the deal, there are going to be people selling their 2400s so 
they can get the new 12" Powerbooks. Unless yo plan on getting on of 
the new books there will be several coming up for sale soon. Someone on 
this list mention two that he had. Buy a working one, and keep yours 
for parts.

PS, If anyone has a G3 2400 they are looking to moved I may be 
interested in like a month or so.

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:34  AM, Bitri at aol.com wrote:

> Some many months ago my beloved 2400c/180/80/1.3 died on me. It just 
> wouldn't power on, not with the appropriate button, nor with the reset 
> button. I rushed it down to TechServe (in NYC) and they told me they 
> couldn't diagnose the problem except by replacing each part one by 
> one, and they didn't have any parts anyway. They suggested I send it 
> in to Apple for refurbishing. I called Apple, and they said they don't 
> work on the 2400 anymore. So ... I looked at it, again and again, and 
> then decided to try what often works when anything goes awry ... kick 
> the damned thing! Well, in this case kicking wasn't the right thing to 
> do, so I slapped my powerbook smartly on its bottom .... and lo and 
> behold .... it started, using the reset button. Once on, it stayed on, 
> and it worked as perfectly as always. When I shut it down, it again 
> did not want to startup. Sometimes the slap worked and sometimes it 
> didn't. It worked enough for me to get all my data on zip disks, which 
> is a good thing! But not having my trusty 2400 is not a good thing. At 
> one point I figured out that if a slap would fix it, then there must 
> be something loose inside ... so I opened it up. I didn't go too deep 
> inside. I just wanted to find something obviously unhinged, or maybe 
> burned out. I found nothing obviously wrong. I did find a loose small 
> screw (perhaps left by the person who replaced the trackpad many years 
> ago), but it was of no consequence. I finally had to put my 2400 aside 
> and buy a new G4 iMac. My powerbook sat for a few months in the 
> closet, and then I just had to try it again. It is not easy to give up 
> on these wonderful machines! Before the 2400 I had a Duo230, and it 
> stills works like a dream (I gave it to a friend in Poland, who uses 
> it every day.)I plugged it in, and lo and behold it seems to have 
> developed the GLOD disease. In my case the green light stays lit only 
> in one position of the reset button. In other words, press reset one 
> and it's off, press it again and it's on. Also pressing the reset 
> button produces a faint click at every other press. I don't know if 
> these symptoms mean anything at all. I tried Sydney's power reset 
> methods, and nothing good happened. Slapping has stopped working as 
> well. It is just dead. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be 
> wrong, and what I might do about it? I would open it up myself if I 
> thought there was something I could accomplish. I would take it or 
> send it to someone to fix if it didn't cost me an arm and a leg. Or 
> perhaps this powerbook is ready to be parted out? Everything about it 
> was in perfect shape, and I've got a zip drive, external floppy, 
> Global Village modem, and external CD drive as well.Ideas??
>
> Steve
> New York City
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