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Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom

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In article <531b88d5$0$25701$862e30e2@ngroups.net>, John Albert
<j.albert@snet.net> wrote:
> On 3/8/14 12:37 AM, Savageduck wrote:
> >
> > I suspect you might have a dead PRAM battery. Those are
> > pretty old computers and the time might have come to replace
> > that battery.
> 
> Here's another suggestion to check the battery (if you have 
> the means to test it), or, just replace it.

The original post did say that they had taken the bettery out of a
working PowerMac and put it in the non-working one, and it still didn't
work.

On my PowerMac a dead battery simply causes the date (and other minor
settings) to be incorrect, but the computer does still startup and work
fine. Replacing it on my model is a simple task of just swaping the old
battery for a new one (made a bit fiddlier by having to remove a card),
but I have read that in some models you also have to muck about pushing
a reset button on the motherboard, etc., which might be what the
original person didn't do.

Possibly the battery sitting in the unused PowerMac leaked and corroded
some of the contacts, but that would probably be easily noticeable when
changing the battery.

Other than that, I would guess a dead power supply, which is unlikely
to be anything to do with the coldness of the room (unless perhaps it
was literally freezing and thawing, causing some form of water damage).

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PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-03-07 21:36 -0600
  Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-03-07 21:37 -0800
    Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-03-08 16:17 -0500
      Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-09 12:12 +1300
        Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-03-09 17:17 -0500
          Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 23:06 +0000
            Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-03-09 18:26 -0500
              Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-03-09 18:53 -0500
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 00:48 +0000
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-03-09 20:58 -0500
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-03-10 16:49 +1300
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 15:30 +0000
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-03-22 10:54 +1100
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-22 01:18 +0000
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:05 -0400
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-10 17:41 -0400
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-03-11 01:29 +0000
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-10 21:48 -0400
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-03-11 05:49 +0000
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-11 02:12 -0400
                Re: PowerMac won't turn on after sitting in a cold bedroom Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 15:28 +0000

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