Hello The keyboard, cable that plugs in to the brightness/contrast controls AND the PRAM battery all plug in to a board called the Power Management Unit. That's probably the faulty component, considering how many I've replaced.
Jason On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 6:05 PM, Jeff Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi > >A friend of mine has a Series 1 Wallstreet. The keyboard works only >occasionally, and when it does work, it sometimes stops working whilst >the machine is on. At the same time this happens, the controls for >Contrast and >Brightness cease to function. Oddly, the machine always responds to the >keyboard combination that resets the PMU (Fn + Ctrl + Shift + Power), >so I don't think the keyboard itself has a fault. We have also had >problems getting the machine to turn on. Could it be the PRAM battery >causing the problem (the machine doesn't store the date and time if >mains power and battery are absent). Any ideas, anyone? > >Thanks > >P.S. Just got the machine working okay for a few hours (was able to >restart it and run it off the battery), but after it had been left on a >while, the keyboard stopped working again. -- Outback Mac is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Outback Mac list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/obmac.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/outback.mac%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
