I On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > On Saturday, 1st of August 2009, Centrisman wrote: >> My QS 2002's power button will light when pushed but when released it >> goes dark. There is no sign of life inside the box or on the mother >> board when I push the power button. When I use the keyboard power on >> button, nothing happens (the power button will light only while it is >> depressed). >> >> Does anybody have any ideas what might be wrong or what else to try >> to >> either get it functioning or learn more? >> >> TIA. > > Hello! > > I had a simmilar behaviour when I had the processor module upgraded > and it > wasn't connected right. The Power-up stopped because the system > didn't find > the processor, so the power button was lighting up only for an > instant. > > > There could be a thousand reasons for this failure though. I cannot > help you > here because it could be almost anything, including the power supply. > > You would have to troubleshoot thouroughly to find the source of > this system > failure -- maybe a piece of hardware (a chip, a transistor, a > soldering) in > the worst case, and maybe just dust or a loose connection as the best > scenario. > > > When I had such failures in the past (using IBM compatible PCs at > that time) I > used to disassemble the whole thing, clean it, and put it back > together, > using only the really required parts. If it worked again, I then put > back all > the non-essential stuff like additional expansion cards (PCI cards) > -- one by > one, to check if one of them was broken and causing the trouble. > > > I whish you good luck! > I hope I was of help, at least a little bit. > Andreas aka Mac User #330250 >
I just had the same exact problem with the same exact computer and: Unplugged everything. Removed the battery. Pressed the CUDA button (little gray button near the battery). Waited 30 minutes. Hooked everything back up. And it powered up. I was very happy. Vince Meghrouni --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
