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Portable Sad Mac
Posted by: LarBob on 2016-09-04 09:24:40 My backlit Portable was having an issue where it wouldn't turn on sometimes and I had to mess with it a bunch in order to convince it to turn on. I took it apart and cleaned the board (some goop) and put it back together and I'm getting this Sad Mac. I was wondering if someone with more knowledge could help me here. It apparently means the ROM check failed. Any ideas? Thanks so much!
Posted by: techknight on 2016-09-04 17:01:05 as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent. These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery!
Posted by: LarBob on 2016-09-04 19:43:40 as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent. These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery! I've gotten it a good battery from alaska360. I definitely do need to give it a recap, it had some goop that I removed from the board. Should I just get caps off of ebay or is there a better place?
Posted by: just.in.time on 2016-09-04 22:51:38 as mentioned in VARIOUS other threads here, some really recent. These things need a FULL clean and a FULL Recap. period. And they also need a good battery! This, along with don't even attempt to power it up without new caps, could definitely be a candidate for a pinned item in this sub.
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