Hello All,
I decided I'd help my girlfriend out by replacing the 40 gig drive in her 12 inch pb with a new 80 gig drive. I've replaced plenty of drives in plenty of machines without issue before. This one, not so much.
Earlier today, I put the drive in an external case, installed the Tiger on it, and her additional software, so it would be ready to go when I got it into the machine.
I followed one of the many online guides for taking it apart. Everything seemed to come apart fine, as would be expected, with one hiccup .... I think I damaged the microphone / speaker cable, the green and gray cable plugged into the board. I swapped out the drive with one of
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I put everything back together, put in the battery, plugged it into the wall and no boot. Not even a chime, fan, drive spin up, nothing.
I took it all apart again, made sure everything was connected, still no go. So, I took it apart a 3rd time and put the old drive back in it, put it back together and still nothing.
When plugged in without a battery the power indicator is the normal green. With the battery in, it's orange. But thats as far as it goes.
Could I have fried something? Could a busted microphone / speaker cable prevent the machine from running? I know the power cable is fine (red and black into the board) .
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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