Hi folks,
I've got a hand-me-down b&w G3 which has worked at times, but is currently having trouble starting up. I'm not getting the start up chime.
Backstory: When i got it, it had a 1ghz Sonnet G4 zif semi-installed, and was told it was "broken". (The users at the company I got it from typically can't tell cancer from a common cold, and I've gotten cheap/free "broken" machines which simply needed a motherboard battery or some disk utility work,) When I say semi-installed, the zif was there, but the required power cord to the zif and the jumper block change were nowhere to be seen. I was able to drop a zif from a beige i'd upgraded into it and get it running with no trouble.
I've gotten all the proper components from Sonnet and attempted to do the upgrade. Did the firmware update, followed the directions, hit cuda, hit cuda and removed the battery & power for a day, etc, but no go. It's possible that the zif is fried, but I have no way to tell for sure. And one reason I'm not sure is...
When I try to downgrade to the 200mhz zif, it won't start. Usually I don't even get a startup chime, though the other night I tried again and got one after it sat for many days w/o battery or power cord. I blew it, though, as I noticed that I had forgotten to put the battery back in and foolishly didn't let it finish the startup, terminating it so i could install the battery. Then it went back to no-chime. I've done the cuda / let it sit for a day w/o power or battery / cuda / attempt restart thing a couple of more times since then, but still no luck.
Any suggestions?
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