[PCI] Disaster

[Colin]

All right, after moving around some of the RAM yesterday, I thought it 
best to clear the pRAM, so I did that with Cmd-Opt-P-R.  However, my 
display was corrupted, so I shut down and reseated the video DIMM's, 
which worked.  However, I forgot to reset the Startup Disk control 
panel, so when I turned it back on, I got the blinking ? icon.  I tried 
Cmd-Opt-Shift-Del-0 to boot from SCSI 0 (hard drive) and Option (startup 
disk menu) but neither worked.  I tried to boot into Open Firmware 
(Cmd-Opt-O-F) but I still got the ? disk icon.  So I went to bed.

I woke up this afternoon and went to turn on my Mac.  I did that.  It 
powered up; the keyboard lights flashed and the hard drive started to 
spin up.  But there was no video.  And no startup chime.  Being a PC 
technician, I went to work the best I could.  I removed the processor 
and pressed the CUDA switch for five seconds, and then firmly reseated 
the processor (604e, 120 MHz).  I found out the SCSI cable wasn't 
plugged in, so I reseated that to no avail.  All cables inside and out 
are now firmly connected, but my Mac won't even give me a sad face, much 
less a startup chime.

Help.
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Colin
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