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| Well, the 520c died. | |
| Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-09-04 17:02:25 Something went boom. Now the 520c is dead. Won't boot. The disk spins up, but other then that, nothing. Ugh. (Is it caps? Maybe...)  | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2016-09-04 17:04:20 May it rest in piece 🙁 You need to measure the output voltage from the power supply, the blackbird power supplies have known leaking and failing capacitors. I had a blackbird back in the turn of the millennium and the caps were already bad. | |
| Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-09-04 17:07:39 Ok, something is wrong. It booted again from a hard start... And made it to the desktop. All the way. There isn't any indication that anything was wrong. What the heck is going on inside this computer? | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2016-09-04 17:09:07 You need to measure the output voltage from the power supply, the blackbird power supplies have known leaking and failing capacitors. I had a blackbird back in the turn of the millennium and the caps were already bad. Unplug the power cord from the brick itself and give it a sniff. A good one. Bet you smell fishy fishy. The other thing, 2.5" SCSI HDDs are KNOWN for spontaneously failing. | |
| Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-09-04 17:14:41 Didn't smell like fish. only hot plasticky smell. Also, what's the power supply voltage? | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2016-09-04 17:18:46 I dont remember off the top of my head, but I believe its labled on the power supply itself. | |
| Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-09-04 17:21:19 I got 16 volts on my meter. (EDIT: that's good.) And the powerbook booted again. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2016-09-04 19:42:30 Sounds like a Power Supply problem to me. Time to scratch your head and figure out how to open that power brick and replace those darn caps. | |
| Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-09-05 20:12:31 It looks easy to crack, but who really knows? Not me. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2016-09-05 20:47:13 I know the Those Bricks on a Leash have screws on the 5x0 Powerbooks but just in case they are also sealed shut, look at this thread for an idea: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26586-opening-a-powerbook-power-brick-revisited/ | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2016-09-06 04:41:15 They are sealed as well as screws depending on rev. I remember having to take a flat blade and hammer to it back in 2000 or so. It was my SimTower machine of the time. | |
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