Hi Bob. The required supply is for a Beige G3 tower. I am certain that the supply is bad - I opened it up and found a MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) that has flamed out and sooted up a small section of the power supply's main PC board as well as over-heated the 1/4 watt, 470 K-ohm, 5% resistor mounted adjacent to it. The power supply's fuse was also open. I want to avoid spending a lot of money on the supply yet, until I can determine if the G3 logc board is intact. I am in the process of replacing the obviously failed parts and seeing if the supply will survive power up without further damage, provided I can find a way to bring it up without connecting the G3 locg card to it. If the voltages check okay, I will then attach the logic card and see what else works or doesn't.
I have replaced the 3.6 V lithium batter on the G3 logic card, if that is the battery you are refering to below. I am unfamiliar with the "Cuda" Switch. The only switch I can see the the miniature pushbutton that is connected to the logic card via a harness, and used to power the system up.
On 10/02/2000 10:01 AM, headgap wrote:
>On 10/1/00 8:40 AM, Daniel O'Leary wrote: > >>I just picked up the aforementioned CPU at a junkyard. Does not power up >>and I suspect the supply. Any ideas on how I can be sure, and how much >>a replacement would cost, if I were to request one? I replaced the >>logic board battery,. and it had no effect. > >I couldn't find a reference on the CPU you mentioned. I may have a >power supply for cheap or can lay my hands on one. > >One thing to check is if the power supply has a battery. It needs to be >good for the power supply to work. > >Have you tried the cuda switch on the motherboard?
