UPDATE.....
Still working on my six laptops and I've got some news.
As you could read two of my PowerBook 100 had some live in it. One is actually
really back from the grave and is booting also from a cold start. I guess that
the capacitors are bad...but they can live for maybe some months.....
Out off all my hard disk only one is working. Last night I was working with
it and to my utter disbelieve after a reboot I had not the plesant smiling macintosh but a
flashing floppy with question mark...
Normally this means: another dead disk.... As a last resort I switched the
SCSI cable to the monterboard and ...YES... the disk worked again...
You can understand that these PowerBooks are not good for my nerves...
I also have to make a confesion. This week I bought my seventh PowerBook 100.
The offer was very tempting. The owner was not asking much for it and promised
to deliver it at home. He also told me that it was working. But in a second
email he told me that he didn't have an adapter anymore. How could be know
that the PowerBook was working without any power? Well....he told:
"It worked when I stored it many years ago". But since he was bringing the machine I
could check for myself. The outcome was good and not good. It booted without
any hair dryer.... but the harddisk was not able to boot. Since it was not to
much money I bought it and decided that I would transfer the only hard disk
that works to this one. I also transfered a modem to this machine.
Thats how far I'm now. I hooked up the PowerBook to my Quadra with the special
cable so that I could see the disk on this machine and made a backup. This
specially for the modem software.
I'm still think what to do with the rest of the SCSI disks. Is there a way to
repair or revive these? Or make one good one out of two broken ones?
Still working on my six laptops and I've got some news.
As you could read two of my PowerBook 100 had some live in it. One is actually
really back from the grave and is booting also from a cold start. I guess that
the capacitors are bad...but they can live for maybe some months.....
Out off all my hard disk only one is working. Last night I was working with
it and to my utter disbelieve after a reboot I had not the plesant smiling macintosh but a
flashing floppy with question mark...
Normally this means: another dead disk.... As a last resort I switched the
SCSI cable to the monterboard and ...YES... the disk worked again...
You can understand that these PowerBooks are not good for my nerves...
I also have to make a confesion. This week I bought my seventh PowerBook 100.
The offer was very tempting. The owner was not asking much for it and promised
to deliver it at home. He also told me that it was working. But in a second
email he told me that he didn't have an adapter anymore. How could be know
that the PowerBook was working without any power? Well....he told:
"It worked when I stored it many years ago". But since he was bringing the machine I
could check for myself. The outcome was good and not good. It booted without
any hair dryer.... but the harddisk was not able to boot. Since it was not to
much money I bought it and decided that I would transfer the only hard disk
that works to this one. I also transfered a modem to this machine.
Thats how far I'm now. I hooked up the PowerBook to my Quadra with the special
cable so that I could see the disk on this machine and made a backup. This
specially for the modem software.
I'm still think what to do with the rest of the SCSI disks. Is there a way to
repair or revive these? Or make one good one out of two broken ones?