On Jun 27, 6:34 pm, insightinmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
I'm confident it is -- I was careful to note the direction of the
battery when I did the swap, and it does hold settings when I unplug
the machine.
>
> Did you also do cmd-opt-P-R ?
Yep, that was another thing my brother suggested. Forgot to mention it
(it's hard to remember to recite every single step you've already
taken to avoid having people suggest it when you've already done it).
>
> 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 ...
>
> Bill Connelly
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