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Jan 2, and I'm already procrastinating :-). While not wanting to clean the house (still feeling just that wee bit light headed and a bit "off" (yes, more off than normal)), I decided I would waste, I mean take the time to play computer doctor. "Why now" you might ask? Well, because the downstairs large room is looking seriously great after [livejournal.com profile] exsmof and the lovely [livejournal.com profile] dogpooh successfully moved the bed from my shop into the spare bedroom after [livejournal.com profile] peanutofdeath and his lovely took the old one out of the spare bedroom. This triggered the clearing of a list of dependencies, culminating in moving a desk out of the office and into the large room. Of course, one must put something seriously cool on a desk in open space...thus....

The Attempted Revival of the 20th Anniversary Macintosh

I purchased the 20th Anniversary Macintosh at a fire sale price, brandy new and ever so cool. It runs Mac OS 8.6. It has no bits of Unix in it. It has an ethernet card. It likely still runs MacTCP. It is seriously cool and pretty and wonderful. It also is not working.

And thus, the saga begins.

Last night, the Seastrom person (soooper genius) suggested that the issue might well be a dead PRAM battery, so that's where I began my research. Finding these batteries new is really not that simple a thing. However, I am not absolutely certain that is this machine's only issue. The green light on the BOSE power supply/subwoofer is supposed to come on. It fails to do so. I am not certain if this is dependent on the PRAM battery or not. However, since the PRAM battery is still delivering 1.5 volts (of 4.5), I would think that might be enough to at least kick things ON, if not actually allow for full boot, but there is nothing. Nada. Dead.

Taking the baby apart, there is a teeny tiny little reset switch hiding below the motherboard, but I am doubtful that doing anything to that will be of assistance if the main power supply's green light won't come on.

Thus, our saga stalls for a bit while [livejournal.com profile] dogpooh attempts to figure out what is wrong with the main power supply unit. Stay tuned to this channel for updates, as it is always important to know where your 20th anniversary macintosh has been.

For my next trick...revival of a G4 CUBE! W00t!

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