--- Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Reply follows quote. On 21/12/2004 09:20
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> >
> >--- Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> My Reply follows quote. On 20/12/2004 07:17
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >>
> >>> Here's the situation. I have a 6116 and a 6115
> >>> performa's and both are acting the same way.
> >>> Upon start up I hear the chime and then here
> >>> the computer accessing the hard drive then
> >>> nothing no happy face no sad face nothing.
> >>> I have repalced the pram battery but no
> >>> difference. There was no information in "Sad
> >>> Macs Bombs and other Disasters". I have replace
> >>> these with a beige G3 but before I start
> >>> parting these machines out just want to
> >>> make sure that there isn't an easy fix. Has
> anyone
> >>> else experienced this type of problem?
> >>> Are they really dead?
> >>>
> >>> thanks for your help
> >>>
> >>> Richard
> >> --------
> >> Seems like a "classic" symptom of a dead PRAM
> >> battery. Sometimes youcan "test" this by letting
> >> it boot then quickly switching the power
> >> off then back on.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >
> >Then what? I have a 7100/80 that might be doing the
> >same thing!
> -----------
> If you "test" as suggested, and get a good boot,
> then
> the PRAM battery is dead (or accidentally installed
> backwards--easy to do). New battery (or reversed in
> bracket) and you should be good to go.
>
> Ken
I was going to say; "Seems to me I changed that
battery when I got the computer out of the office."
But it just dawned on me that might have been about
three years ago!
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