Recently came into a trio of known-good MDD's: two dual 867s and one dual 1.25. I had personally witnessed that all three machines were capable of booting up and running.
The 1.25 is the first one I received. It turned out to have a disabled DVD drive, for whatever reason. After seeking the advice of the kindly people on this board, I replaced the DVD drive (twice, because of physical door fit, but that's another story). The new one still didn't work. I then came into possession of the two dual-867 machines. Both had some one or two 512 RAM cards and one or two smaller ones, but seemed identical in all respects. I loaded all the 512s from the two 867 machines into one of them, chosen pretty much at random, since I needed one machine more urgently than two. Eventually, after some stumbling around, this turned out to be a sweet-running (if somewhat noisy) Mac that's now being enjoyed by my son. The other two, though, are another matter. Eventually, I punted and started swapping around both RAM cards and CPUs. I had two old and small RAM cards, four newer 2700-speed 512 RAM cards, one older/slower CPU card, and one newer/faster CPU card. In the course of ineptly testing the slower machine, I ran it for about 30 seconds without the heat sink on the 867 card. Bye-bye 867 card. (Yes, I know. Dumb.) Now I have the faster CPU, both chassis, both machines' hard drives with Tiger on them after the previous owner wiped them and reinstalled the OS, a CD drive, a DVD drive of unknown condition, and the aforementioned proven-good RAM cards. Current state: Both machines, when fitted with the remaining CPU and either hard drive, give the interrupted chime and 3 beeps that is supposed to mean all the RAM is bad. I did the "pencil eraser and shove 'em in real good" drill. Makes no difference whatsover. I'm just about the point of recycling the whole mess. I'm sure this reaction would be just about as ignorant as all my other moves up to this point. Suggestions? -- 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
