Thank you! I was hoping that was the case... still, it no workee...
Does anyone think the AC adapter may have (very) coincidentally decided to give up the ghost? I experienced that with the external power supply to the G4 Cube I had started my parents off with several years ago. Purchased new, it worked fine daily for a few years just sitting in one place. When I went to replace the Cube's clock battery, and had unplugged the power supply, after putting it all back together the power supply had simply decided it was time to retire. Luckily it was still easy to replace with a new one.
Also wondering about other components, capacitors on the board etc; if with age and long periods of non-use, the shock of getting powered up drives certain things over the edge. One of the topics somewhere here seemed to speak to that. I've had that happen with Color Classics especially, been in storage for years, power right up and work fine for a while, then gone without a trace, - and the symptom is always the same as is true with this 550c: absolutely no response when pressing the power up key.
Ah, the crap shoot of vintage electronics... sometimes I think the only reason all of my old Macs still continue to work fine is that they get used on a regular basis, but not too much, and never sit idle for too long.
Thanks.
Does anyone think the AC adapter may have (very) coincidentally decided to give up the ghost? I experienced that with the external power supply to the G4 Cube I had started my parents off with several years ago. Purchased new, it worked fine daily for a few years just sitting in one place. When I went to replace the Cube's clock battery, and had unplugged the power supply, after putting it all back together the power supply had simply decided it was time to retire. Luckily it was still easy to replace with a new one.
Also wondering about other components, capacitors on the board etc; if with age and long periods of non-use, the shock of getting powered up drives certain things over the edge. One of the topics somewhere here seemed to speak to that. I've had that happen with Color Classics especially, been in storage for years, power right up and work fine for a while, then gone without a trace, - and the symptom is always the same as is true with this 550c: absolutely no response when pressing the power up key.
Ah, the crap shoot of vintage electronics... sometimes I think the only reason all of my old Macs still continue to work fine is that they get used on a regular basis, but not too much, and never sit idle for too long.
Thanks.