[timob0]

Hi,

I‘ve been reading a while on this forum, now registered to ask for advice on an issue with my green Octane that out of the blue doesn‘t power on anymore. I used it a few months ago and shut it down cleanly. The other day, when I pressed the power button it just didn‘t do anything - no light, fan, nothing.
Checked the obvious - power cord, wall socket etc., without luck.
One thing that may play a role is that last time it worked, there were issues with sticky harddisk heads that could be resolved with pulling out the disk and plugging it back in. Could this have damaged the PSU? What would be good points to check to isolate the problem? I‘d replace or recap the PSU once I‘m confident that helps.

Since this is my first post, let me quickly introduce myself: I live in Germany, work in software engineering and I collect/repair vintage computers since several years with the objective to restore them to usable, original condition. I focus mainly on 90s Unix boxes (Sun Sparc 10, HP 9000/712, SGI Octane) and relatively rare early portables (Apple Mac Portable, IBM PS/2 P75).

Cheers!