Replying to my own thread here - weird Just wanted to say that I ended up grabbing another Rev B board for this B&W for under $25 shipped from the LEM Swap list. Got it this week, swapped proc's and installed it in my B&W and everything's ducky now. Did a load of 9.2 and 10.3 with the 350mhz clocked to 400 (with a heatsink fan just for good measure).
One wired thing: the video card shows as a Rage128 with *32*mb of VRAM. 32mb? I didn't know that a Rage came that big? Anyways, it still blows. Guess I'll need to track down a Radeon or Geforce for some Quartz Extreme action. Thanks for all of the suggestion to try and fix the old board. I'm finding this list is really interesting to lurk on too! So a big "thanks" to all here! - Dylan 1.25GHz 15" G4 Powerbook - 1.25GB RAM, SuperDrive 500MHz DP G4 Powermac - 1GB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 MX 400, SuperDrive, GigE 450MHz G3 "Sage" iMac - 512MB RAM, DVD-ROM 400MHz G3 B&W Powermac, 512MB RAM, CD-RW (no longer sick) On Nov 7, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote: Hello! My name is Dylan and I just joined up on the G-List today. I'm a newer Mac user (a little over a year), but not a stranger. Growing up, our family's first computer at home was a 512k Fat Mac back in '85. My brother went back to using Macs on a daily basis a few years ago and I felt sidelined by cost. I finally sucked it up and made the plunge and haven't looked back since. Over the last year I've been able to resurrect several G3's and G4's back from the dead. Most of the time it just takes a little patience, testing and maybe a new PRAM battery. I recently bought a B&W G3 350 with a Rev2 board from a member of the MacRumors boards. It was working fine before shipping. Just before boxing it up, the previous owner booted from CD and erased the original 6gb IDE HDD. Now that the machine has arrived at my house, it's dead - almost. When it first arrived, it wouldn't do anything other than turn on the power light and spin the fans. I re-seated everything and at that point got a good solid bong but it won't continue to boot to the point where it initializes the video or the USB or ADB ports. As a result, I'm unable to do a PRAM reset or boot into open firmware. At boot I get logic board LEDs DS7, DS8 (Power) and DS9 (CPU Request) all lighting up. Then DS9 goes out, I get the ?Bong", DS9 flickers a couple more times, then nothing. I?m assuming that DS1(ATA), DS4 & DS5 (USB 1 & 2) and DS6 (Ultra ATA) should also be lighting as the boot sequence goes on, but they?re not. If I mess with the jumpers on the HDD and CD set to CS, the DS1 & DS6 LEDs light solid for ~20 seconds, then go out. Things I?ve checked: - PRAM battery: good @ 3.6v - Replaced PRAM battery - verified video card is good in another machine - used multiple monitors - reset CUDA - reset Logic Board - re-seated RAM, processor, video - attempted booting with no RAM - gives proper one beep - attempted booting with RAM but no Video or drives - used several known good sticks of RAM - used ADB instead of USB keyboard - attempted booting without battery - used a known good processor - swapped IDE cables and drives - removed battery and let it sit overnight - dusted cleaned, shined entire case inside and out, told the computer it was beautiful I'm fearing that maybe the primary PCI controller's dead? Or maybe the IDE controller? I'm really out of ideas. The last thing I was going to try was to leave the battery out for a few days, but I'm not holding my breath. So, any suggestions before I lay down for a new logic board? Please? ;-) Thanks! - Dylan 1.25GHz 15" G4 Powerbook - 1.25GB RAM, SuperDrive 500MHz DP G4 Powermac - 1GB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 MX 400, SuperDrive, GigE 450MHz G3 iMac - 512MB RAM, DVD-ROM 350MHz G3 B&W Powermac, 512MB RAM, DVD-ROM (sick) -- 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 -- 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
