---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G3 B&W powers up, but no sound and no video Date: Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010N From: "Mac User #330250" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> 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. I don't believe it! I just booted into Mac OS 9.2.2!!!!! I removed the CPU from its socket and replaced it there. That was the fault all the way it seems. Heureka! BTW, Sound works alright with Mac OS 9.2. Still no startup-chime. Maybe there is a fault somewhere still. So, System Profiler states: Serial number: N/A System-ID 406 Model: PowerMac G3 Series Processor: PowerPC G3 Speed: 350 MHz ROM Revision: $77D.45F6 Boot ROM Version: 1.1f4 Mac OS ROM Version: 8.7 So far no word about the graphics card. After shutting it down -- same situation as before -- no screen. Now the monitor goes on and of two times or so, and then it get stuck again. I tried this now: Cmd-Opt-P-R for two times. I cannot hear the chime, but I can see the "USB STATUS" LEDs DS4 and DS5. They come on when everything else is set up and go off again if the system restarts (what it does when pressing Cmd-Opt-P-R). After that I can get into Open Firmware: [snip] Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM build on 04/09/99 at 13:57:32 Copyright 1994-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. OpenFirmware 3.1.1 [snip] When booting I always get the disk with the question mark in it. It then always boots into the first operating system found, which is Mac OS 9.2.2 in my case. Trying to set the startup volume to Mac OS X 10.3.9 again breaks the initial start. So: it is broken alright. I just don't know what's broken. Could it be the PRAM? But at least I now *can* make it boot *somehow*. But only into Mac OS 9 for now. Is it possible that the Option key doesn't work on the G3 B&W? On the G4s this key lets you select which OS you want to boot... Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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