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andy the pugh <A.C.Pugh@shef.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have come into posession of a Mac Portable, unfortunately it doesn't
> work. I had some luck booting it up when I first got it, getting as far as
> 'Bienvenue a Macintosh' (it has french system software and an AZERTY 
> keyboard), but after looking at the power system more carefully it appears
> that it was booting from the 9V PP3, which didn't have the juice to spin up
> the disc drive. When that PP3 ran down I got another, but that won't do it
> at all (it looks like Duracells have less ooomph than Panasonic)
> 
> Anyhow, I have renewed the lead acid batteries in the battery pack, and it
> still won't boot, it is getting less far than it did before, A random
> pattern appears on the screen, the floppy drive goes 'bong' and that is it.
> 
> Any ideas where to look for problems? 

You might try re-setting the power manager - hold the reset and
interrupt buttons in for 5 seconds and then try and start the Mac.

Have you got a known-good OS to boot off?

And you might find some joy at one of these urls - subscribing to the
Classic Macs mailing list might not be a bad idea either.

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<http://w3.ime.net/~deceiver/phoenixmacrepair.html#top>  Fixing Macs
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/sabell/pb100.html     PowerBook 100 info
http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh         Dead batteries on old Macs
http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse/jagshouseone.html   Jag's house
http://members.aol.com/maccrypt/index.html          Old software and OSs
http://www.gamesdomain.com/tigger/sw-oldmac.html     Old Mac software
http://www.uwm.edu/~thig/plus.html                   Antique Mac pages
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Hope this helps
Rowland.

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