Probelm solved.

I was thinking where else I had heard that long tone, and it hit me;
whilst doing holding down the programmer switch during a firmware
update. So I though to myself 'what if the programmer switch is a
fault?.' On a chance I disconnect the front panel cable from the
motherboard and hit the power on switch on the motherboard. Booted
right away!

Now I just have to figure out whats wrong with the front panel.

Thanks for the help.

Aaron

"Aaron Jackson" <googlegroups[at]aaron.j.btinternet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Probelm solved.
>
> I was thinking where else I had heard that long tone, and it hit me;
> whilst doing holding down the programmer switch during a firmware
> update. So I though to myself 'what if the programmer switch is a
> fault?.' On a chance I disconnect the front panel cable from the
> motherboard and hit the power on switch on the motherboard. Booted
> right away!
>
> Now I just have to figure out whats wrong with the front panel.

Had a similar thing with my brother-in-laws old MacII (don't know which
model it was). used to just reset itself all the time. after a while with it
I noticed that it reset when there was movement in the room.
Turned out it had this long reset button bar which was jammed against the
case - as soon as there was vibration the reset button made contact.

I was really glad of that as the french edition of macos was a very
unfamiliar place!

Woody

In article <be17cr$8dv$1[at]newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>,
"Woody" <usenet[at]alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Had a similar thing with my brother-in-laws old MacII (don't know which
> model it was). used to just reset itself all the time. after a while with it
> I noticed that it reset when there was movement in the room.
> Turned out it had this long reset button bar which was jammed against the
> case - as soon as there was vibration the reset button made contact.
>
> I was really glad of that as the french edition of macos was a very
> unfamiliar place!

Hah! try helping your Japanese colleague with problems on a 5300C laptop
running Japanese OS. Just trying to find a simple control panel can be
fun.

Peter

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In article <p.r.ashby-BEB9A8.14015703072003[at]dux.dundee.ac.uk>,
Peter Ashby <p.r.ashby[at]MAPS.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> In article <be17cr$8dv$1[at]newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> "Woody" <usenet[at]alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Had a similar thing with my brother-in-laws old MacII (don't know which
> > model it was). used to just reset itself all the time. after a while with it
> > I noticed that it reset when there was movement in the room.
> > Turned out it had this long reset button bar which was jammed against the
> > case - as soon as there was vibration the reset button made contact.
> >
> > I was really glad of that as the french edition of macos was a very
> > unfamiliar place!
>
> Hah! try helping your Japanese colleague with problems on a 5300C laptop
> running Japanese OS. Just trying to find a simple control panel can be
> fun.
>

BTDT. Found it reasonably easy, because everything was in the place it
should have been, so even though I couldn't understand it I knew what to
do.

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In article <rpg14-62556B.14225903072003[at]pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
"Richard P. Grant" <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> > Hah! try helping your Japanese colleague with problems on a 5300C laptop
> > running Japanese OS. Just trying to find a simple control panel can be
> > fun.
> >
>
> BTDT. Found it reasonably easy, because everything was in the place it
> should have been, so even though I couldn't understand it I knew what to
> do.

Ah but with this particular OS (can't remember the designation) some of
the control panels were different, strange hybrids of our 'normal' CPs.
The conversation where I tried to get across what sort of control I was
looking for was 'interesting'.

Fortunately another Japanese arrived in a neighbouring lab and he is a
Mac head so I passed further problems over.

Peter

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