On Jun 27, 2009, at 1:33 PM, leighkimmel wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> 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.


Is the PRAM battery in the right direction?

Did you also do cmd-opt-P-R ?

All of this resets audio preferences I think ... but I only have  
experience with Mac Plus, a Performa, PM8500/9500, Yikes!, DA, QS  
2002 ... nothing in between ...



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