> > Sounds like the NVRAM battery has delivered it's last watt to the MoBo...
>
> This is a new battery I put in it last year. But I can check it... I have
> another new one I can put in. My other Iici that does fire up (but has
> munged SIMM slots) still has the original battery. I'm sure it is dead, but
> the machine still fires.
A dead PRAM battery won't cause a IIci to stop booting up (although a dead
PRAM battery is one of the causes of a black screen for many Quadras and
LCs). If you've already replaced the power supply with a known good one, then
the motherboard is shot (I've had this happen to a IIci myself, and there's
not a whole lot I know of to fix it -- I think it's a problem with one of the
caps, but darned if I can tell you which one to test and replace).
One other cause of a dead IIci is losing the jumper on J1 (I think), which
effectively lobotomizes the unit. However, this is an easy way of turning an
otherwise idle IIci into an overgrown hard disk enclosure, and I have a IIci
which is doing nothing at the moment acting as power and SCSI input to my
old 4.3GB drive while I copy files off of it. Happily, the unit is restored
to full function by putting the jumper back on, of course.
If you have a cache card in it, try pulling it, although I've never heard of
a dead cache card causing a totally unconscious unit (usually a wonky cache
card just causes inexplicable errors once the machine gets going). I think
you said you'd already tried pulling all the cards, memory, etc., though.
Any possible SCSI termination issues on this unit?
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Received on Sun Apr 04 2004 - 23:18:58 BST