Hi everyone, I got a steal on an original Bondi Blue iMac G3 last week for $20 and have been loving playing around with OS 9. It's been working perfectly fine for the last week or so--no issues whatsoever.
The 4GB hard drive was a little tight though, so I opted to throw an extra 20GB drive in there this afternoon that I had lying around. The install was a piece of cake. Unfortunately, I'm now having some very odd video issues. After reassembling the computer, it fires up fine the first time. I get the startup tone, normal video, and the computer boots up just fine (I even got OS9 put back on after this initial boot). Unfortunately, that's where the problems start. As soon as you shut the machine down and restart, you then lose video until you manually reset the PRAM and press the CUDA reset button on the mainboard. I've reproduced this exact scenario at least 3 times now and it works the same way every time--reset the PRAM, reset the CUDA, machine powers on normally, restart--no video. I'm still getting the startup sound and it sounds as if the computer is booting up normally even when I don't get video (lots of HD activity), it's just that I'm getting a completely blank screen (with an amber light). Any ideas? Would a bad PRAM battery cause such issues? The likelihood that it would just so happen to manifest itself after my upgrade is suspect to me though. Thanks! Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
