It's not dead yet. It's feeling better. It would like to boot up now. Actually it's the a3000 I bought on ebay and mentioned in another thread, which really belongs to another person so I thought I would start one on my issues here.
Okay, so upon powering up we get zilch except for a slight clicking sound from the HD, like some tiny technician was trying to tap out a message but was weak from lack of food. If I hold both buttons down we still get nada. I tried another scsi HD from another machine... one I'm not 100% sure is any good but wottheheck... I tried disconnecting the HD and trying to boot from a floppy. At this point I will say that the one thing that seems to work is the light for the floppy. It comes on and stays on thruout whatever I do. I seem to recall having this problem with another machine but that problem was a bent pin and this doesn't seem to be the case.
In the other thread somebody mentioned (of course) the battery and examination shows a slightly fuzzy battery end but not a lot. Still, this morning I looked and it reads about 1.5 volts instead of the 3.6 volts. I assume this is significant so the next task is to remove the battery from it's soldered connection and wire up this other fully charged battery I have on a small board from some previous life. We'll see what that does. If someone knows that this battery problem would cause the machine to not boot whatsoever, I'd appreciate it letting me know. So far I have pulled out everything I could, checked the connectors and put it all back together again. Nothing yet. sigh. My first A3000 and it's a pisser.
