On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:06:37 PM UTC-5, Dan II wrote: > > My sons MDD 1.25 dualie 2GB RAM running 10.5 has died. We had a > electrical storm a couple of days ago so I unplugged it, forgot to plug > it in until today, when I did and pressed the start button, NOTHING! Put > a new MB battery in it and pressed the button again, NOTHING!
The power button (Front Panel Board) could be at fault. I have had similar experiences with both of my 1.25 MDDs. Had to force them to shut-down after kernel panics. Then when I pushed the power button nothing happened. Thinking it was the obvious, I replaced the battery and it restarted. Couple days later, the same thing. After about the third or fourth event, I discovered that just pulling out the power cord and waiting a few seconds would rectify the situation. How do you explain that? I subsequently reinstalled the system (10.4) to correct a non-functioning audio on the DP machine and have had no more occurences of the failure to restart. However, the single processor 1.25 MDD continues to refuse to restart after a power-button-force-quit following a kernel panic. Pulling the 120AC cord for at least 10 seconds allows a normal restart. ???? MDD 1.25 single processor, pre-2003, 2-gig RAM, OSX 10.4 MDD 1.25 DP, pre-2003, 2-gig RAM, now with OSX 10.5 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
