Pull out your handy multi-meter and check your batteries. The battery 
you took out of another machine may also have been dead, or close too 
it. You should also reset pram (command option p r on startup) whenever 
you replace the battery. Beyond that you need to strip the machine down 
to the power supply,  logic board, and monitor (no cards, no drives) 
and see if anything different happens, and then go from there. Hope 
something in there helps,

-Matt

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:51  PM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

> On  0, chris <cb@mythtech.net> wrote:
>
>> On many of the Macs, when the battery goes, the video goes or the 
>> whole
>> machine fails to boot.
>
> I replaced the supposed failed battery with another of a running 
> mac68k machine. The problem remais the same.
>
> Thank you for helping.
>