Len Gerstel wrote:
On Nov 7, 2004, at 7:11 PM, Colin wrote:
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.
Sounds like it could be a dead pram battery. That can cause all kinds of problems such as yours.
24 hour Radio Shack or compusa nearby?
Can't be; I tested the 3.6 V battery with my multimeter and it came up as 3.55 V; pretty good considering the battery has the date July 1995 stamped on it. And there are 24-hour Radio Shacks now? Wow.
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Colin
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