At 09:29 PM 6/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I managed, with a bit of yanking about, to get it
>disassembled, down to the motherboard, as per the 3b1
>FAQ. I got some of the big dust out and reseated all
>of the seatable chips. There didn't seem to be any
>major damage anywhere... one of the fans had a cut
>line which I repaired, but there was no evidence of
>any type of overheating. Most socketed chips were
>reseated, everything was powered on once again, and
>the same thing seems to happen. :( The rectangles
>appear, the floppy drive sits and spins, and the hard
>drive spins up and sits there. There is a loud
>beep/click type sound, which I'd figured to be the
>heads unparking themselves. When the hard drive cable
>is removed, the machine freezes at one rectangle, so
>was thinking it could be something along those lines.
>Will see if I can dig up a HH ST-506 drive somewhere
>soon. The power supply looked OK... one very slightly
>mad looking / bulging cap, but nothing overtly broken.
>(My DMM is in the mail at the moment, so I wasn't
>really able to test much. :() The only other thing I
>think I can report are that the four indicator LEDs
>are at a constant on state - could also be normal for
>this part of the boot cycle for this machine, too.
It sounds offhand like the hard drive has the "stiction" problem
referred to in the FAQ. Did you try booting from a floppy?
Comp.sys.3b1 used to be where the Unix pc folks hung out.
They are cool machines, I have a couple myself.
G
Gordon Zaft
zaft_at_azstarnet.com
http://www.zaft.org/gordon
Received on Wed Jun 12 2002 - 01:12:10 BST