add this to your list of stupid relies if it doesn't help but I had a problem where there was no start up chime and it turns out that the volume was turned off after I got it running. You could boot it up and use the keyboard to push the volume up to see if that's it. Please reseat your video card also, el.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, John Niven <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Wed, 1/6/10, Mac User #330250 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try putting the video card in a different slot. > The slot for the video card is somehow different than the other PCI slots. > I don't really understand it, but I'm confident further internet research > will help to clarify this mystory. > > > The "video" slot is just a 66MHZ, 32bit PCI slot instead of a 33MHz, 64 bit > (hence longer) PCI slot which all the others are. The video card will work > in one of the 64bit slots because they are 32bit compatible (I have done > this), though they will run at half the speed. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > >
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