[NTLK] G3 Death

Scott Mugan scott at digitalwavegraphics.com
Sun Jan 2 21:48:42 EST 2011


Just unplug the PRAM battery, reset the power manager and it should boot.
-Scott

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On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Ross Deihm wrote:

> Hmm I got spares of those laying around. I'll try swapping it out when I get
> a chance and see if that brings her back to life, again. Thanks Jon. Still
> going to get the 540c ready to be a back up of a back up. Redundancy is
> good.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Jon Glass <jonglass at usa.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ross Deihm
>> <adventuresindining at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This particular failure has
>>> me puzzled, I can plug it in, get a green power light flash, then
>> nothing.
>>> Won't boot. Even a hard reset won't boot it.
>> 
>> The irony is that this sounds like nothing more than a dead PRAM
>> battery. Maybe want to check that before giving it up. Cost about $5
>> last time I bought one for a Pismo. My wife's Pismo currently has a
>> dead PRAM and it takes forever to get it to boot, and I have to swap
>> in my not-quite-entirely-dead big battery for it to boot after a dozen
>> tries.
>> 
>> --
>> -Jon Glass
>> Krakow, Poland
>> <jonglass at usa.net>
>> 
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>> Nicklaus
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