In article <16804@pak.UUCP> kvj@triple-i.com (Karl vonJena) writes:
> Wow! This is a new one on me. But I might suspect that the power outage caused a surge that either tripped a breaker (if you have one), blew the power supply, or (gad!) fried your motherboard. Since you don't get any power at all, it's probably the first two.
Nope. A day or so later I hit the button and it started up. The room
temperature was much higher then, which gives credibility to the
following:
> From: rajiv@athena.mit.edu (Rajiv A Manglani)
> I believe that the battery needs to be replaced. On newer Macs (the IIcx and
> up) the mac draws power from the outlet to turn it on. The IIx requires power
> from the batter. See your Authorized Apple Dealer.
Do I *really* need to see the dealer about replacing a battery...?