I would try a fresh battery ... my 9500 started up a few times, then stopped starting up reliably ... sort of like an old battery with some charge at first, being finished off with a few startups ...

Start again without the PC based card and a fresh battery (they're $15 here in the states at RadioShack, then when running reliably, start adding the PCI cards ...


On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Richard Halkyard wrote:

Peter Udbjørg wrote:
If I put in a new Pram-battery, do you think the Mac will wake up, or do
you think the Mac is now a write-off?

It can't hurt to try a new battery. Many Macs refuse to start with a bad PRAM battery, and fail in various ways. Often Macs with 'soft-power' - i.e. can be swtiched on using the keyboard - won't start at all.

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