Re: [q] Mac VGA adapter

2004-05-08 Thread Bill Judson
I forgot something: with one of the Macs came another adaptor. This one had two Mac monitor ports, one male, one female. No dip switches. On one side its writen Supermac, on the other it has some kind of part number and 832x624. Whats it supposed to do? Turn a monitor into a 832x624 one

[q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread Stephen Alexander
Hi y'all, new to the list. I have a quick question regarding a Q840AV I ran across in a local goodwill store. I haven't bought it yet because of the following: I plugged it and the monitor (a rasterops w/rasterops nubus card) and turned everything on. It didn't boot, just gave me LEDs on

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 08/05/2004 17:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi y'all, new to the list. I have a quick question regarding a Q840AV I ran across in a local goodwill store. I haven't bought it yet because of the following: I plugged it and the monitor (a rasterops w/rasterops nubus

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread Stephen Alexander
Thanks for the tip, I will try again. I'm just dying to give my wife the opportunity to kill me for bringing home another obsolete computer (at least it's better than the NetBSD-IIsi). Anyone got a particular resource with a collection of this kind of info that I should know about? Cheers,

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 08/05/2004 19:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for the tip, I will try again. I'm just dying to give my wife the opportunity to kill me for bringing home another obsolete computer (at least it's better than the NetBSD-IIsi). Anyone got a particular resource with a

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread macsonly
is the in the machine? iirc i believe the key has to be turned right position. Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 08/05/2004 17:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi y'all, new to the list. I have a quick question regarding a Q840AV I ran across in a local goodwill store. I haven't bought it

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread macsonly
slaps hi s head that the 950 that needs a key. better get to bed before checking mouth for shoe size some more tonight. :( charles Stephen Alexander wrote: Thanks for the tip, I will try again. I'm just dying to give my wife the opportunity to kill me for bringing home another obsolete

Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions

2004-05-08 Thread John Kamimura
Sounds like you were able to get the 840 started with the button on the front panel. Can you feel air being pushed out of the power supply fan? Can you hear the hard drive spin up? Yes - possibly the OS is hosed or the disk is damaged. No - HD could be unplugged or dead. Might want to poke