Re: Blank screen - PB 5300 just died!

[Allan Trick]

Thanks for the pointers, Bruce.  I turned on the 5300 this morning (and it 
had not even been plugged in overnight), and I heard the startup sound and 
up it started!  So strange.  I guess the bad cable and possibly lack of 
termination with the Zip drive yesterday caused this all to start.  But it 
looks everything's back to normal now!

Appreciate the response though!

Best,

Allan

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Re: Blank screen - PB 5300 just died!

[Allan Trick]

At 11:02 PM 9/6/2003, Drew wrote:

You probably need a pass-through terminator to use with the 5300.  I know 
Zip drives provide termination, but their capabilities are dubious at best.
I wondered about that.  But I checked the little switch on the Zip drive 
and it was set at "Termination - On" so I didn't worry further about 
it.  I'll throw in a "real" terminator next time I try using the Zip on 
this machine!

As for a completely non-responding 5300, that could be a lot of 
things.  Have you tried resetting the power manager by pushing in (and 
holding) the reset button on the back of the computer for about 30 
seconds?  Afterwards, sometimes it will start without you pushing the 
power button, other times you have to push the power key first... But 
usually this clears up strange power/booting problems.  If that doesn't 
help, then keep it plugged in for 24 - 48 hours and try again.  Your PRAM 
battery could have been depleted, and a depleted PRAM battery can cause a 
failure to boot  You may also have a completely dead PRAM battery (in 
which case you need to either buy a new one or rebuild your current one).
Thanks - all good advice.  I'll try those ideas today.

The clone desktop is another matter (and probably best answered on the 
corresponding list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Power Computing 
clones, etc).
I'm a member of that list too, but thought I'd throw all my problems in one 
message.  Sorry about polluting this list with my desktop problem too. 
:-)  But you gave a great response to that issue as well.  I'll check on 
the cache DIMM tomorrow.

Best,

Allan

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Blank screen - PB 5300 just died!

[Allan Trick]

I need a little feedback on something if you have any...

Last night I was copying some files from a Zip 100 disk to my PowerBook 
5300.  Everything was going fine until I dragged a folder of files over, it 
started copying, and then it stopped midway through like it was copying a 
REALLY big file--the Zip amber light kept on making it look like it was 
busy too--and then I noticed everything else on the PB desktop went away 
(HD icon, etc.) and it appeared to have frozen.  I forced a reboot from the 
keyboard and reset the Zip drive too.  When I restarted the PB, there was 
just a big black diamond with a "2" in it bouncing around on the screen.  I 
guess that's a symbol for SCSI port 2?

I restarted off the Disk Tools floppy.  There were no hard disk errors and 
everything came up normal.  I went through the process again.  It froze 
again on transferring a small folder of files from the Zip.  I restarted 
again and the computer came up OK (no diamond this time).  But the pattern 
repeated.  I decided to call it a night after the last such cycle.  And 
this morning I tried turning on the PowerBook and there is NO response from 
the computer.  It's just DEAD.

I hesitate to mention another fact because it makes NO sense to me 
whatsoever, but my desktop (a Mac clone) is dead today too!  I had it on 
last night, but it was not connected to the PB.  It shut down normally last 
night.  Today when I press the power switch, the power supply turns on, but 
the hard disk isn't going through its paces.  The screen never shows any 
signs of life.  (I do hear the startup chime.)  Zapping PRAM is not 
possible; it doesn't recognize the key sequence.  Why would a desktop show 
these signs, whether or not in connection with a laptop?

Does any of this sound at all familiar to anyone else?  I think I'm going 
crazy.  At least I have this PC laptop with which to post this message! :-)

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Allan

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