Mike...
> I trust you went back to the original daughtercard in your tests of the
> motherboard ie.
> the 604e PCC 250 that came with the machine?
If you mean - did I pull the 400Mhz card out for all the tests? Yes I did
that. I didn't put anything in its place however, as I have nothing to
replace it with. I assumed the chip built into the board would take over.
> no startup chime means that the bus inspection being carried out by ROM on
> startup isn't
> getting past the CPU inspection stage...ie doesn't get to the ram
> inspection stage to give a
> car crash warning.
I kinda know what that means, then again, I kinda don't.
> ...at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I have often suggested the
> inline cache dimm as
> a troublesome component on 604e equipped PowerComputing machines.
If you mean the chip in the L2 slot, I yanked that for the tests as well.
The only thing I had hooked up was the video display card so I could plug in
the monitor. Then I would sequntially add components and test them
individually under a variety of conditions. Nothing worked, the bastard
flat-out refused to start up. I didn't swap out the PRAM battery, didn't
think that would have had anything to do with the problem.
> I expect that we will also find that G3 cards, which have the cache mounted
> on the 'backside'
> of the CPU, can also fail due to damage to the cache component, which, like
> ram, is susceptible
> to damage from static electricity.
I'm unsure as to whether Newer Technology had a backside cache mounted on
this particular card.
Cody...
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