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Time Capsule Powered Off, Won't Power Back On

My Time Capsule was running just fine, then spontaneously just powered off by itself. All the other devices in the power strip were fine and I tried switching outlets, plugging it directly into the wall, and unplugging the TC and plugging the power cord back in. The network port lights in the back are out and the light on the front is dark. However, when I first plugged the cable back into the TC, the network lights came on for a split second. I'm guessing that there's a power connection fried (because if it were a power supply failure the lights would not have blinked on at all).

Any suggestions? Thanks!

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 27, 2009 8:58 AM

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LaPastenague

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Posted on Jul 5, 2010 1:14 PM

Basmar wrote:
Well you can add me to the list of ever growing users that are having the PS problems with their TC!!! I'm going to hit up Apple and see what they will do for me... Replacement would be great, but I'm not holding my breath

Unfortunately in Australia, Apple doesn't have the enlightened policies they do in Euro and USA.. here they just put their fingers in their ears and sing ting-a-ling-a loo!! But if you have AppleCare on any current product then they should replace it.. otherwise talk to a repairer.. see the list.

http://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modems /apple-time-capsule-repairers

I have done about 50 all up now.. !!

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Aug 17, 2011 11:42 AM in response to elroySF

Did anyone figure out WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS! 18 months mine is DEAD

Aug 29, 2011 8:20 PM in response to elroySF

Well, there are certainly a lot of <edited by hosts> appearing here so Apple sure is watching.

JamerUK

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Sep 4, 2011 1:35 PM in response to elroySF

Mine has just died on me, need to go and check the date of purchase but it's only been about a year, not happy!

craig297

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Sep 6, 2011 7:29 PM in response to JamerUK

Mine broke over the weekend. a little over 25 months of use. not happy.

jcalmon

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Sep 7, 2011 6:05 PM in response to elroySF

Agree. Apple has to do something about it.

avens006

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Sep 10, 2011 12:47 AM in response to LaPastenague

Thank you for your reply.

champi

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Sep 29, 2011 8:12 AM in response to Mr_SelfDestruct

I just repaired the power supply on my own.

It works great, and cost me about 3 euros.

Oct 3, 2011 3:13 AM in response to elroySF

Mine died two days ago. It was less than two days old. The Apple dealer checked the serial number and said "Sorry" ...

Oct 12, 2011 2:27 AM in response to sbistj

Hi sbistj,

my one died without any warning. One day it was there, the day after it was dead. Good luck with yours, anyway !

champi

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Oct 24, 2011 1:31 AM in response to dancindoc

dancindoc wrote:

We are just paying the price of outsourcing everything to China.

There's nothing about china here...

TC seems to have a faulty design, that's all. Leave the chinese people alone 🙂

Carlo TD

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Oct 24, 2011 5:04 AM in response to dancindoc

the bigest cause of electronics going bad is dust.

Dogcow-Moof

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Nov 20, 2011 3:23 PM in response to jabberfolk

jabberfolk wrote:

Clearly there's an issue here.

There may well be, but you're past the warranty period, so…

Bob Timmons

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Nov 21, 2011 10:53 AM in response to pseudoclass

This might help:

http://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modems /apple-time-capsule-repair

Dec 10, 2011 9:12 AM in response to openarchitecture

ust thought I'd add that my replcement TC is still going strong after 2 years and a few months. My other TC (6/2009) still going strong. Just a bad batch in 2008?

Jan 4, 2012 2:26 PM in response to elroySF

Hi everybody...my TC 1TB of 30-oct-2010 died on 31-dec-2011...same problem of yours, green light off and no power.

I opened it but seem that supply is ok...but i'm not a technic...

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