[DuoList] Dead 2400

[britt at reactornet.net]

They defy logic, BUT they *ALWAYS* work. I have never had a completly dead
mac. I got a free 6116 Performa, and no video. Power on, Reset PRAM and
voila! it perked up. After reboot, no video. Hmm. Tested PRAM battery and
no voltage. After a new battery, it worked fine. I bought a G3 card for it
and some more ram and a AV card and it works great!

> That's so strange that it worked that way! My logical side of me says,
> that
> makes no sense, but I've found, in my billion years of working on
> Macintoshes (the first one I owned was a Mac II in 1990), is that they
> often
> defy logic. I've even had them not recognize RAM that were the same size
> brand and everything until I switched slots they went into.
>
> I just won an auction off eBay for a working 2400c. Hopefully I'll get it
> the first of next week. I'm watching trying to pick up a few for parts
> just
> because of the reason you said.
>
> I figured, if nothing else, I know the screen is good on the one that's
> giving me grief, as is the keyboard and probably a few other parts and
> pieces.
>
> What I'd really like to get my hands on is a G3 upgrade if anyone has a
> line
> on one.
>
> Hope everyone's day is going well!
>
>
>
>
> On 10/7/06 12:59 AM, "britt at reactornet.net" <britt at reactornet.net> wrote:
>
>> I actually thought my 2400c was completly dead too, died on my vacation
>> when I really needed it.
>>
>> I took it apart and sat it out for days, and still nothing. I took
>> another
>> one apart and tried to get mobo/cpu B to work, with no avail. Then, I
>> took
>> cpu A and put it with mobo B and presto! I put Cpu B with mobo A and
>> presto!
>>
>> Thats why I own doubles of everything.
>>
>
>
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