At 12:44 PM -0700 5/11/2010, Drew Anderson wrote:
I hope that the eMac falls within the parameters of the "One Step
Removed" from iMac, since there is no eMac group that I can find?
eMacs are part of the iMac list.
Anyway, I have a couple of eMacs:
#1 - G4, 1.25 Ghz, 1 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.11
#2 - G4, 1.42 Ghz, 1 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.11
I installed AirPort cards in both of them to eliminate some of the
Cat-5 cables in my work area. the 1.25 Ghz has worked perfectly on
Airport ever since. The 1.42 Ghz worked fine until I put it to sleep
the first night. When I woke it up the next morning, the hard drives
spun up, but the screen stayed black. I tried a restart, it stayed
black. I powered down & powered up, it stayed black. I powered down,
pulled the Airport card & powered up... It stayed black up to the
user log-in screen. Then the picture came back & it's been working
fine on hardwire connection ever since.
Anyone have experience or ideas about what's goin' on?
Could be that the airport card was defective or not fully seated.
As for the display issue, that sounds like a bad parameter stored in
the PRAM/nvram. The video is initialized based on the PRAM settings
early in the bootstrap, then re-initialized with full parameters
later.
Try resetting the PRAM, by booting with cmd-opt-p-r held down. This
will "zap" the pram then restart the self-test (the thing that
produces the BONG). Hold down those keys until the system bongs at
least twice.
HTH,
- Dan.
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