I'm working on rebuilding system boards --- the capacitors and diodes decay after a period of time. where did you find those error codes?
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:42 PM, platnicat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a first gen Mac Portable (non backlit) with power problems. > When I got it at a garage sale for $1 (a great find), its battery was > dead and gone. I performed the 9V adapter hack (http://lowendmac.com/ > pb/macintosh-portable.html) and it worked for awhile. Then, after > about a week, I got the sad mac upon bootup with code: 00000014 over > 0000CD38. I looked in the apple "sad mac error codes" reference and it > told me that that code meant that "the power manager failed to turn on > power to all parts of the system board" and "the power manager failed > to start the initial handshake". From this I deduced that the adapter > had been damaged, as it was very hot, and I performed another > modification to replace the original battery with a new 6V, 4.5Ah SLA > Battery. Now, however, it won't turn on at all. > > HELP! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
