68kMLA Classic Interface
This is a version of the 68kMLA forums for viewing on your favorite old mac. Visitors on modern platforms may prefer the main site.
| Click here to select a new forum. | | Dead Pismo! | Posted by: 30pin on 2009-09-01 21:54:14
Just picked up a very nice looking pismo. The first one I have had! No hardrive. Plugged it in. Nothing. Checked and reset the ram, added a hardrive. Checked all the cables under the keyboard. Left it plugged in for a couple of hours. Tried again. Nothing. Checked the battery and it shows one green light. So power is going through. I tried pushing the little reset button on the back of the pismo, no change,still dead. I would really like to get this one going!!! What am I missing??
| Posted by: Strimkind on 2009-09-01 22:55:40
Remove the PRAM battery. It may be too dead and will cause it to not boot. Just remove the keyboard and the CD/DVD drive and you will see it on the right hand side.
| Posted by: 30pin on 2009-09-02 08:51:58
You were right! I unplugged the pram battery and it booted right up!! It has 256mb of ram and is 500mhz!! The harddrive I put in is 20gb with O.S.9.2. I will get a new pram battery off ebay along with more ram and then I would like to install O.S.10.? Thanks for the helpful post!
| Posted by: Redjack on 2009-09-02 09:21:23
Awesome find! Yea I got two Pismos (since sold one) that were both DOA but I unplugged the PRAM battery and they work! The 500 mHz's are the best and harder to find, congrats!
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-09-02 23:55:23
Fantastic score!
Compleat Guide to the Pismo
| Posted by: beachycove on 2009-09-03 05:52:44
I will get a new pram battery off ebay along with .... (It's a backup battery, actually.)
Now that it has booted, leave it plugged in, shut it down, then plug in your backup battery. If the main battery is dead, leave it out of the machine. Start up again, put to sleep, and keep it plugged into mains power like that for a few days.
Most Pismo backup batteries will revive that way, and will charge whether there is a main battery in or not. I doubt that you need to spend so much a penny on it.
| Posted by: NeverGoBack88 on 2009-09-06 10:19:04
(It's a backup battery, actually.)
Now that it has booted, leave it plugged in, shut it down, then plug in your backup battery. If the main battery is dead, leave it out of the machine. Start up again, put to sleep, and keep it plugged into mains power like that for a few days.
Most Pismo backup batteries will revive that way, and will charge whether there is a main battery in or not. I doubt that you need to spend so much a penny on it. This is great to know, thanks beachycove! I've been waiting and wondering what will eventually happen with the still-original backup battery in my purchased new Pismo. I still use it in regular practice, primarily to update a website that was made with GoLive 5 under OS 9.1, and since it ain't broke, I'm not fixing (upgrading to OS X web design software) it. Very much in keeping with: not spending so much as a penny on it... 😀
| | 1 |
|