UPDATE:
Yesterday I tried booting my mac again. It had nothing to do with the battery/hard disk/PSU/capacitor problems-I was testing a boot floppy. I was using the double-flick to boot the mac.
I, as has already been mentioned, was trying to make a system 6 boot floppy (see post 15 June). I never managed to make that disk, but I did make a system 8 floppy which booted fine.
I did, however, notice something interisting with the hard disk. Once, it did stay spun up, but I was in the process of zapping the PRAM, so of course the mac rebooted and the hard drive didn't work. Why does the drive spin once and then not again? I didn't disconnect the power, switch the mac off, change a thing, but yet the second it wouldn't go. On the times, however, when it did eventually spin down (the "bad" startups), I heard a faint rapid "click click click click" noise from the disk, about twice a second. I don't think, however, that that's a sign of stuck heads, as it was running fine 5 seconds before.
Yesterday I tried booting my mac again. It had nothing to do with the battery/hard disk/PSU/capacitor problems-I was testing a boot floppy. I was using the double-flick to boot the mac.
I, as has already been mentioned, was trying to make a system 6 boot floppy (see post 15 June). I never managed to make that disk, but I did make a system 8 floppy which booted fine.
I did, however, notice something interisting with the hard disk. Once, it did stay spun up, but I was in the process of zapping the PRAM, so of course the mac rebooted and the hard drive didn't work. Why does the drive spin once and then not again? I didn't disconnect the power, switch the mac off, change a thing, but yet the second it wouldn't go. On the times, however, when it did eventually spin down (the "bad" startups), I heard a faint rapid "click click click click" noise from the disk, about twice a second. I don't think, however, that that's a sign of stuck heads, as it was running fine 5 seconds before.
The hard disk doesn't have a model number printed on it (I just took the cover off the disk, but none of the disk platters said anything on then :lol: :lol: :lol: ). Seriously now, it just says "Apple 3.5 internal HDD", or something like that. I did notice, however, that the power requirements on the disk stated 5 and 12 volts dc. Which wire is which voltage, however, and is there an easy way to find out?
PSU states 5v, 12v and -5v on sticker. Those voltages look so far out to me that I think it'll damge my logic board with that over-voltage :O !