Recently the PRAM battery on my faithful old G3/233 desktop died. When I put in a new battery and started it up, I suddenly had no sound. No startup chime, no system alerts, no music from CD, nothing. When I go into the Monitors & Sound control panel, it shows a blank for sound output, as if it doesn't even know it has the capacity to handle sound.
On the recommendation of my brother, a computer engineer, I pulled the Personality Card and reseated it, but it still can't tell it's got the capacity to play sound. I even finally did the upgrade from 8.1 to 8.6 that I'd been intending to get around to forever, but it did not resolve the situation -- and it screwed up my Palm Desktop, so I may have to go back to 8.1 to get that back (I'm still using an old Palm VIIx until it finally gives up the ghost). Does anybody have any experience with beige G3's losing their sound when the PRAM battery is changed? I'd really like to be able to play CD's on it while I'm working -- I can listen to Internet radio on the G4 laptop (the machine I'm using to type this), but it tends to get hot if run for too long. Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
