Perhaps the 3.6V internal battery needs replacement. On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 09:29 PM, Ray wrote:
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.
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Beige G3 DT/466mhz, OS 9.2.2 & 10.2
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