Guru Charles, et All G'day! to All, and Thanx for your input, but...
On Nov 09, 2005, at 05:32 AM, iMac List wrote:
From: Charles Martin Subject: Re: Problem with 266 (G3) Lime imac Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:51:51 -0500
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I don't mean to suggest that throwing money at a problem is always the right choice, but if this 2nd son is in anything beyond grade school, I'd suggest to you that your time and money would be better spent getting him something fairly new (G4 class at least).
You've hit the nail on the head, money is very much too short in supply, and for justification my workhorse BeigeG3MT(w/G4 500Zif and mostly maxedout+) is the best it has gotten here in my Legacy land, and he complains that the iMac uses too much of his study desk's limited real estate and he has too little room to study, sos I've been working on an iBook 366SE Firewire that needed it's mobo swapped, and now only is needing a good: "Japanese Language Input Keyboard" replacement for him to get back at work on his studies and regain some of his desk too, does perhaps anyone have one gathering dust that they'd be willing to part with cheaply??, do Please don't hesitate to email me off-list. snip
If even those are out of reach, at least get the kid a G3 iMac with Firewire and load it up with as much RAM as it can handle -- that should be bearable for a while,
snip The iMac with the problem here(subriding on this thread-btw) is a 400Mhz USB/FW(either DV or SE, don't recall at the moment for my insufficent internal caffiene level) and 'til lately quite nicely working, but after swapping out the PRAM Batt. and it's RAM with an extra 128Mb pc100 chip pulled from my BeigeG3, hit the CUDA, it's still giving me only a single tone(no not chime) on any attempt to bootup(no the power switch is not stuck down). And of course, my not knowing now what to try next. Any and All ideas, suggestions, advice will be appreciated and very much welcomed. TIA Respectful of GURUs Bill Cornett cornettATgolDOTcom / -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
