MB 1,1-7,1 A1181...no start!

[Michael Maddan]

Just bought another ( ! ) MacBook on Ebay. Great price / nice condition. Meant for parts...

It's in really nice shape / fan works / pretty clean inside, and ( all of a sudden...) I would like to get it working. The fan comes on, but there's no chime. I'm using RAM from another, known-good A1181. I'm assuming that many folks have worked on these, and that a no-start should be relatively easy to diagnose...am I right??

Thanks, everyone!

 

[Michael Maddan]

UPDATE!
Seems the A1181 has a bad RAM slot. I asked Google for suggestions, and tried the one mentioning the possibility of a bad connection. Turns out there is: one card at a time, I went to both slots; one did nothing / the other brought the Old Apple to Life. In my machine, the good slot was nearest the HDD.

This is a MacBook1,1. There's an Intel Core Duo, running at 2Ghz. The fan was a little dirty, but not bad. I may re-paste, as it sure looks very easy on this machine.

Oh: it's running OS 10.4. I wanted to use my OS 10.5 Install DVD ( Authentic ), but it would not show up on the screen. DVD is running, but not getting through...AND: it was a little reluctant to eject, and I was Lucky @ holding the mouse button during startup...nothing else worked, and I was close to removing the drive. It's an easy job to extract a stuck DVD, but rather depressing to have to do it.

So: a little Good Luck, this time!