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In article <1992Oct19.225114.12279@midway.uchicago.edu>  
smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (Steve Kramarsky) writes:
> ME TOO!!
> 
> This happens to me fairly often.  The power button simply does NOTHING,
> it doesn't start the fan or turn on the little LED next to the fan on  
the
> motherboard or ANYTHING.  It's as if the machine is unplugged. I've  
tried
> everything from jiggling the cables to removing and reseating all the  
simms
> and nothing brings my slab back to life.  
> 
>   The only cure I have found is to muck around with everything (resecure
> cables, reseat simms etc)  and then leave the thing alone for a while.   
My
> slab seems completely mecurial about this.  Sometimes it will power on  
after
> sitting dead for hours or even days.  At this point I no longer turn it
> off for fear it will stay off.
> 
>   My slab is a color station, non-turdo.  Any thoughts would be much
> appreciated.  
> 

We have had a color turbo do this repeatedly - once when it arrived to be  
used as a demo in our booth at a show! The first several times, NeXT sent  
Motorola out to exchange the motherboard(!). Then Paula in tech support at  
NeXT had us try pulling the battery, leaving it out for a half hour, then  
re-installing it. Voila! 

It's nice that we can now get it back up and running when it exhibits this  
behavior. It's a little annoying that it wants to play possum from time to  
time though.

We have a monochrome slab (non-turbo) that has had a similar ailment but  
that too had the motherboard replaced. Perhaps the battery trick would  
have worked on it as well.

Gordon

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