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Offline KarlosTopic starter

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I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« on: September 24, 2008, 12:42:34 PM »
Now my main 1200T doesn't boot at all.

I have decided to strip it down and give it a damn good cleaning as it was choked with dust.

Perhaps it may recover but I'm not hopeful.

Shame on me :-(
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2008, 12:48:55 PM »
I'm sure it'll come back to life once you've given it some TLC  :-)

Don't give up!

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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2008, 12:55:04 PM »
Agree with TLC.  Also some CIR may help.

- C: Clean it
- I: Inspect (capacitors, traces, battery leak etc)
- R: Reseat (socketed chips)

Usually does the trick.  A multimeter may come in handy to check the PSU.
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2008, 12:59:03 PM »
There's a lot of dust under the BlizzardPPC heatsink. The thing is I haven't actually used it for ages and I cleaned it out then. Quite strange, really.

I'm loaded with cold myself at the moment so I need TLC as badly as the miggy does but I'll see what comes of a good CIR session.
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2008, 02:34:15 PM »
Check out that your PSU outputs +5v correctly too
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2008, 04:45:34 PM »
My system lives again, almost. It recognises the 040 on the PPC board and naught else.

Last time it got like this I had to reflash it.
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2008, 06:07:32 PM »
TLC :-?
It is the initials of an x-girlfriend of mine.. But NO WAY!!
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2008, 08:03:13 PM »
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My system lives again, almost. It recognises the 040 on the PPC board and naught else.

Last time it got like this I had to reflash it.

Clearly, the PPC isn't mil-spec! ;-)

Seriously, though; I'm no expert on the PPC cards, but don't they have some kind of reset? If a flash resolves the problem, then I doubt placing the same code on the ROM's again will resolve the problem.
What else does a re-flash do, besides the re-flashing?
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2008, 08:29:33 PM »
@taunusand

my guess is: Tender Love & Care
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2008, 09:01:10 PM »
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@taunusand

my guess is: Tender Love & Care

Ok  :lol:
That did not cross my mind!
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2008, 09:15:29 PM »
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What else does a re-flash do, besides the re-flashing?

It scares the living daylights out of the thing, as Karlos stands there flapping his coat open/closed/open/closed and the poor little computer contemplates the horrible events about to follow...  :lol:
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Re: I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2008, 12:27:10 PM »
I never knew an little used machine could accumulate so much dust.

It's been stripped, cleaned, had anything that could be reseated reseated, the PSU has been checked, capacitors inspected (no leaky or bulging ones found yet).

All in all it was in OK shape apart from the dust, a scarily large amount of which was in the PPC card's heatsink.

I have since managed to get it booted, though it refused to do so until I flashed the PPC card.

I wonder just how many years are left in the old girl now :-/
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