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Probably will not start. It requires a working clock chip to turn on and the battery is way past its expiration date. There are plenty of tutorials on where to
by tobiasu 5y ago
Probably will not start. It requires a working clock chip to turn on and the battery is way past its expiration date.
There are plenty of tutorials on where to dig into the epoxy and add a cr2032 battery holder to fix it permanently.
Same deal with various SPARC machines (those will at least power on)
- mstade 5y agoThanks for your comment, I had no idea. Out of curiosity, do you know if it's dangerous or otherwise unadvisable to try and start it before making this modification?
- tobiasu 5y agoI don't think anything bad happens, it just doesn't react to the power button and people mistakenly junk them. The O2 shouldn't need a PSU capacitor replacement yet. If you want to give the SCSI disk a better chance, place it flat on a table and rotate rapidly, then stop. You should feel the spindle spin. Hardware of this era is still quite reliable so I don't think you will have problems.
- mstade 5y agoIt did in fact start back up again, but to what extent I don't know because it seems the power supply to the flat panel I have is fried. The O2 did play the guitar sound when starting though, and boy did it stir up memories! The fan is also a lot louder than I remember. Thanks for the tips sir, I'll try to get the screens running to see if I can find any fun data on the drive.