I have had similar problems as you and still once in a while I don't
get the chimes but my B&W G4 boots. The only thing I can thing of now
is to boot into firmware I forgot the key command and also re-seat the
memorysa in take it out and put it back in. Also keep booting with the
option,apple,P,R, keys.
Roy Koch
On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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