Hi, I'm new to the boards, glad to see there is such an active NeXT group still out there. Anyway my issue tonight is I have a Color TurboStation that was working and now doesn't power on. I've tried multiple keyboards and sound boxen and swapped out every cable I could, even replaced the power supply, but pushing power on the keyboard results in nothing... no clicks, no wheezes, nada. Anyone here have any ideas... I'd hate to think this wonderful piece of hardware is *shudder* dead...
Thanks for any and all responses.
The Doctre
Quote from: "doctre"Hi, I'm new to the boards, glad to see there is such an active NeXT group still out there. Anyway my issue tonight is I have a Color TurboStation that was working and now doesn't power on. I've tried multiple keyboards and sound boxen and swapped out every cable I could, even replaced the power supply, but pushing power on the keyboard results in nothing... no clicks, no wheezes, nada. Anyone here have any ideas... I'd hate to think this wonderful piece of hardware is *shudder* dead...
Thanks for any and all responses.
The Doctre
Sounds like your battery died. Where in NC are you located? I'm in Winston Salem. :-) You should be able to find a battery that'll work @ Radio Shack or Battery Plus.
I'm in Raleigh. Glad to hear its something as simple as the battery. :D
I'll head out to a Radio Shack tomorrow and see what I can find.
Thanks for the quick response!
Thanks to the awesome tip I have the box powering on again. Thanks again! :)
Quote from: "doctre"Thanks to the awesome tip I have the box powering on again. Thanks again! :)
Congrats!!! Glad it was something minor.
Thanks to this site my cube is now booting as well, been left for about 5 years so replaced the battery and it started up.
However, it is now saying 'Insert Disk' with an image of an optical disk - is it likely that the boot order has been lost, or that the hard drive is dead?
Any pointers on this appreciated, it is years since I did anything with this machine so would be great to get it up and running again
Cheers,
Rupert.
For starters, try resetting the boot order or even easier, first check you can boot from the hard drive by entering "bsd" at the console.
Quote from: "pentium"For starters, try resetting the boot order or even easier, first check you can boot from the hard drive by entering "bsd" at the console.
Just to show my ignorance, how do I get to boot to the console, I had some notes written down for all this but can't find them - nor can I remember what I need to do :oops:
COMMAND plus ~
Hold down the right Command key and the ~ key at startup
or the Command bar and the ~ key.
At the prompt, using the p command allows you to view and change the configuration of your system.
Thanks again for all your help, got the cube to boot from the drive - did complain about a number of bad blocks and that fsck needed to be run manually.
But when I excited the console it continued to boot and got me to the login prompt - took a while as it is a 68030 cube with only 16MB RAM. All I need to do now is to remember the root password (or use the link I found on this site to reset it!)
Once I have got the cube working I can see about the NeXT station!
Cheers,
Rupert.