>In the continuing saga, the Starmax 3240 MT in question here will now
>start-up, but after the monitor's LED goes from yellow energy star to green,
>it reverts back to yellow on startup. So signal is being sent, but it
>doesn't sustain and the internal IDE Barracuda drive does not seem to be
>spinning. Could the logic board be damaged? How would I know?
I haven't really been following the saga, but I saw similiar
behaviour when I had a bad L2 cache card. I would get the startup
tone, the monitor LED would flicker and then nothing, once I pulled
the bad card it started up. It may not be it but it's worth a try.
Craig
>
>I tried starting from the 7.6 Disk Tools floppy for PPC, from the original
>Starmax CD 7.5.3, and nothing is working. I am sure the original RAM is back
>in original position, turned the right way and that the power plugs are all
>in their keyed slots (though P6 is still just dangling there since no one
>can open their Starmax and decide whether it's supposed to be plugged in or
>not).
>
>I would really appreciate list members' help in diagnosing this problem
>before I run the clone down to CompUSA for a $75 check-up (that's what
>they'll charge to look and fix for an hour). The DIMM bought off eBay is
>repackaged and ready for return to the seller, who has conspicuously ignored
>all e-mail attempts to ascertain his return address. The two original and
>working DIMMs are exactly as they were. Does anyone know a way to diagnose
>this problem? Miss Cleo has been vague, and I don't know where else to turn.
>
>The only other Macs I have are an old LCIII that runs like a top and a
>Performa 638CD that serves as a TV, writing station. I don't think I can
>network these to the Starmax to diagnose it with TechTool, but maybe I can
>find some halp here. It's amazing how simple it was to start up a Mac Plus
>with RAMdisk (paid for thank you), and run MacWrite and HyperCard back in
>the day. Thanks to Mr. Schwartz and others for their kind off-list
>suggestions!!
>
>All the best.......... Matt
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