---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G3 B&W powers up, but no sound and no video Date: Mittwoch 06 Januar 2010N From: Dan <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> No video flicker at all? Still none. > Have you zapped the pram? A thousand times now... well, I stopped counting... > Replaced the pram battery? Yap. Took the one from the G4-AGP. No change. > Clean the speaker; reseat its cable. Did that. The speaker seems to be okay, meaning there is no visible fault. > Disconnect everything from both IDE buses. Did that. > Pull all the memory. Did that too. > Try booting - you should hear error beeps etc. No. I did the whole thing again with the known-to-be-working speaker from the G4 AGP, since it has the same connector and also looks alike. No effect, i.e. no sound, beep or whatever. > Try cleaning the video card - it's contacts and slot. As far as I can tell they are now as clean as they were before. I just cleaned the whole damn thing (it was dusted alot... never seen so much black dust before...), but since you mentioned it, I did some more cleaning anyway. > Try putting the video card in a different slot. Did that, all of the slots. No change. No picture. ---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G3 B&W powers up, but no sound and no video Date: Mittwoch 06 Januar 2010N From: John Niven <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > 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. Thanks for the info. I had such in mind, but wasn't sure. Well, after all I did for this fellow G3 to come to new life, I am now somewhat disappointed. I really think it is dead. But since I don't know what it has been through -- maybe someone dropped it (because the top back "handle" is missing). Or maybe someone spilled hot coffee all over it (and inside, since there is evidence left at the optical drive brezel). I will just never know. Thanks to all for the great help. It is good to know that people out there still care for old but great pieces of hardware. Big THANKS! Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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