No worries, I discovered it's a bad power button board. Shorted pins
3 and 6, it powered right on.
Thanks all!
Matt Rhinesmith
Sent from my iBook G3
Indigo iBook G3 Clamshell
"Ariel"
366 MHz PPC 750CX (G3) CPU
576 MB RAM 30 GB HDD
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
On Oct 7, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Dan wrote:
At 4:39 PM -0600 10/6/2010, Matt Rhinesmith wrote:
733 MHz DA, running Leopard 10.5.8.
I was [doin Stuff to the hardware then lost power]. Now, I can't
get it to boot at all, and the only way I can get it to even power
on is to put one of the AGP 8X video cards (sans tape) into it. If
pins 3 & 11 are taped or I use the original card, nada. When it
powers on, I get no disk activity and no video (even from the card
that just displays gibberish). Help, I need this machine for school!
When it does power on, do you hear the "self-test completed" bong,
or perhaps individual beeps or an odd chord?
Try a hard reset: Disconnect all unnecessary peripherals and
cards. Unplug the computer. Reset the Power Manager (PMU) by
pressing the CUDA button ONCE -- *or* removing the PRAM Battery for
a minute then reinstalling it. Then plug the computer in, wait
about 10 secs, then try booting it. If that still fails to boot,
then try zapping the PRAM (hold down cmd-opt-p-r while booting).
PS. I posted a topic in the G-Books group about AirPort on this
iBook, but still have no replies, I'd appreciate it if someone
would give me some help.
I didn't receive that post and I'm too lazy to go into the web
interface to browse around for it; could have been eaten by the
Googlehole. Try re-posting.
- Dan.
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