I do not get the Bong sound, at startup, nor at zapping the pram nor can I get sound at all. It all started when I had a bad surge in the house. The only thing affected was the Beige G3 DT, even though it was connected to a surge protector. Now the PC was unharmed but the surge protector was fried and smoking. This is kind of lengthy but I wanted cover all the things I did.
At first I could not start up the Mac. Luckily I have a friend who has the same beige G3 DT and he kindly took out his power supply to make sure my motherboard didn't get harmed. It started up but we noticed there wasn't a bong at startup. At that point, I got a power supply on ebay. When I installed the power supply, I noticed that there wasn't a bong sound again. But I was having all kinds of startup problems. I would keep getting a white empty dialog at the blue Mac Logo and it would just freeze. I also was having difficulty even starting up with my startup CD. It would freeze at the blue Mac logo but without the white empty dialog. Much later, I was able to get a readable dialog which said "Sorry, system error occurred, address error....hold shift key". Now for some reason, I was able to boot into Mac OS X.2 when I was finally able to boot up on my startup CD but the problems would keep coming back in OS 9. >From time to time I would get it working and was even able to install OS 9 twice into another partition as well as to the 20 gig scsi. But the problem just kept coming back. I did all the other usual things, like zapping the pram, pressing the cuda switch, removing battery and power supply again. I assumed it was my hard drive and system, so I used Tech Tool, Disk Warrior and Norton's to try to fix it. It did have major problems but it turned out to not be that. I decided to just put in another hard drive and install a fresh system because earlier attempts at installing a system on different partitions failedBut the problems still persisted. I also had all PCI cards removed. I decided to remove the memory one by one which appeared to be part of my problem. It seemed that my memory was part of my problem because I wasn't getting the freezes. But still no bong. When I finally was able to use the system again, I discovered I had absolutely no sound. The slider would not stay up. I took out the Rev B rom dimm and put it back in my older Rev A rom dim but still no sound. From my Beige speaker or external. So, I'm concluding the sound port somehow got messed up, along with my 500+MB of memory. I don't know if there is anything else I can do, short of getting a new motherboard? I also tested the speakers and the external worked. ===== Beige G3 DT/466mhz, OS 9.2.2 & 10.2 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
