Bronze Keyboard G3s dying left and right... Recourse?

jonathan brisbyjonathan brisby
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Our campus has come back from summer to find 4 different G3 laptops (with DVD players and bronze keyboards) all dead. They have all sat in their carrying cases unused for at least 6 months. I have tried plugging them in to recharge, no luck. I have tried running them off the wall only... no luck. I have tried the reset switch on the back, no luck. I have removed the battery and drive bays, then plugged it into the wall and still no luck. What happened and is there any hope for these?



Additional note, they won't even chime. They have not been touched, they were stored in 4 seperate secure locations, and were not plugged in. They were just shut down, and put away (with batteries still in). The batteries won't even light up when you press the little button on the side....



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 4
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Maybe try a brand new battery in one of them? Do they start up at all (maybe it's just the screen)? What conditions were they stored in(maybe humidity got to them)? Maybe it's the connectors on the batteries. Maybe the batteries themselves have died. I would find it mighty odd if silicon components died from lack of use.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    jonathan brisbyjonathan brisby Posts: 318member
    The conditions were all dry, they were in safely padded cases, sitting in an office shelf store room. If the batteries were dead (and that is more then possible) it would still power up off the wall right? And no, they do not do ANYTHING, as if they all just magically got smote down by some Apple God or that they all reached the end fo their 'shareware' period and croaked.



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  • Reply 3 of 4
    pixelpusherpixelpusher Posts: 73member
    Could be a problem with the internal power supplies. That happened to my Pismo. One day it was just dead. But I guess it would be very strange if all 4 would suffer that problem <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 4 of 4
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    That humidity question is more than valid, even if it is a dry place. Our audio/video labs got SOAKED when it rained (two days worth of HEAVY thunderstorms) the other day. The environmental controls couldn't keep up with the humidity and from what I hear it practically rained in there. Yesterday they had two huge industrial size fans blowing air through there to help dry it out.



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