Hi again,
I picked up a cheap-ish 190cs on eBay a while ago and earlier tonight tried to upgrade it with an apple video card and IR board, and replace the RAM board. It used to work slightly dodgily, so I thought the RAM board might have been fried.
However I got the old green light when I restarted it. I tried booting it without the battery and it started to make an "interesting" burning plastic smell... Anyway - it may well now be a gonner, but I took it apart to have a look and it has several dodgy looking modifications to the motherboard. I wonder if it has been overclocked unstabily - the mods are (i have no idea about circuit diagrams in ASCII, so wish me luck):
Further to this, my 'book 190's just packed up with the exact same problem as this. I've had it for about a year now, so it's worked for a while. But it has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of months - since I got a 5300. Could this period of hibernation have something to do with the problem perhaps?
Cheers, Evan.
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