Re: Beige G3 startup problem

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 8:33:47 PM UTC-7, Kris Tilford wrote: > I assume you’re saying “I think I shorted out the power supply & VRM” but > did you confirm either the power supply or VRM was bad? > > Well, I was following the Troubleshooting section of the service manual, but

Re: Beige G3 startup problem

> On 27 May 2016, at 04:33, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On May 26, 2016, at 7:48 PM, parallel_imp wrote: >> >> As I was trying different PCI cards, it started to not respond to the power >> button. > > I assume you’re saying “I think I shorted out the power supply & VRM”

Re: Beige G3 startup problem

A previous reply didn't get posted. Thanks Kris for the correct procedure for resetting the motherboard. I'd removed battery and AC cord and waited before pressing the CUDA, but hadn't removed the VRM. As for the power supply, I was following the Troubleshooting instructions in the service

Re: Beige G3 startup problem

Different keyboard and mouse didn't change anything, but the startup and shutdown problems ended when I changed monitors. I was testing it with an AppleVision 1710 display, and that connects to the G3's monitor and ADB ports, with the keyboard and mouse connected to the monitor. Something in

Re: Beige G3 startup problem

On May 26, 2016, at 7:48 PM, parallel_imp wrote: > > As I was trying different PCI cards, it started to not respond to the power > button. I assume you’re saying “I think I shorted out the power supply & VRM” but did you confirm either the power supply or VRM was bad? >

Re: Beige G3 startup problem

> I needed to hook up an Agfa SCSI Duoscan to scan negatives, and it would > not be seen by the SCSI card in a G4 Quicksilver, so I dug a beige G3 266 > desktop out of the closet. As I was trying different PCI cards, it started > to not respond to the power button. The Beige was the last desktop