Friend gave me an old 8500. I pulled out the hard drive and most of the memory for my original 8500. Recently I wanted to try and revive the old 8500. When I put in a known working hard drive (1MB, with System 8.6) the old 8500 seems to have video problems. I pulled out the mobo to have a looksee, no obvious problems. Here's what I see: 1 x 8MB memory stick with two other unknown sticks (2 x 4MB?), no card in the "ROM SIMM" slot, and 2 x 1MB sticks in the video RAM area. What happens is the computer starts up correctly (it sounds like, at least), I can see on the screen a brief flash of the "MacOS 8.6" screen (which is blurry, off centered and flickers), then the screen goes blank, and my monitor gives an "out of synch" message. Bad MoBo? Not enough RAM? Bad RAM?
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