Cables are all connected, the HD and PS fan spin no problem. There is no boot
noise and no video. I am going to follow up the previous suggestion when I
get a chance and attach an ADB keyboard with the power button.
Stephen
PS it's almost definitely a good buy since it's labeled at $35 and I
And then he read the email that said the KB's not an issue...
On Sunday 09 May 2004 07:03, Stephen Alexander wrote:
Cables are all connected, the HD and PS fan spin no problem. There is no
boot noise and no video. I am going to follow up the previous suggestion
when I get a chance and attach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i run one as a server i am actually typing this on it it is my main
web/email server as well as for ssh connections. anyways i just leave a
keyboard plugged into it with a penny and a dime on the power key to
make it turn on in case of power outages. it works
I'm guessing that it is hard drive/OS problem if everything has checked out OK.
Do you have a spare SCSI drive with a universal MacOS installed to take with you to
try with the 840AV? Or better yet a bootable CD-ROM? Maybe an old copy of Norton
Utilities...
Since the SuperMac(? - can't
Again, I'm rusty, but should I not at least get a blinking question mark icon
if the OS/Drive is bad? And if the monitor is bad I would have expected a
BIOS boot chime. Pls let me know if I'm off base.
Cheers,
Stephen
On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:33, John Kamimura wrote:
I'm guessing that it is
You're not off base. The reason I suggested the different Apple monitor is because
some 3rd party monitor had special extensions that were needed for the monitor to
display an image
If you have another Apple monitor handy or the store has one then plug it into the
built in video. Boot from the
I think I am going to give up on this one... I'm betting on the last one at
this point. I'm going to see about trying it with my trusty old 12
monochrome, but beyond that I think it's a lost cause. I didn't try reseating
RAM but I am going to guess that it's a dead logic board based on the fact
At 19:09 -0500 09/05/04, Stephen Alexander wrote:
I think I am going to give up on this one...
You should at least try reseating the graphics card.
Had an old Radius card way back, that required holding the t key
down to configure to the monitor and the Mac.
Don't know if there's an obscure key
I actually did remove the card completely when I tested it on the onboard
video (and reseated it after) but I will look into rasterops configuration,
thanks for the tip!
Cheers,
Stephen
On Sunday 09 May 2004 20:22, Tina Holm wrote:
At 19:09 -0500 09/05/04, Stephen Alexander wrote:
I think I
Ken wrote:
snip
-
I believe the machine is one of those that needs the power switch on
the keyboard to start it up.
Ken
It's not. I run one as a server without a keyboard or mouse attached, it
starts up fine from the front button. Although I've about broken my
button off the logic
it.
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Scott Holder wrote:
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 02:53:34 -0400
From: Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Quadlist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Quadlist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [q] Quadra 840AV boot conditions
Ken wrote:
snip
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I believe the machine
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Hello there,
Sounds like three possibilities. In order of probability : -
(1) No system software othe hard drives. Try launching from CD and
then load MacOS on one of the drives IF there is none present.
(2) The PRAM battery is Caput! Get a new one (preferably NOT by ebay,
they tend to be
Ken wrote:
Picked one of these today and brought it home to play with (for $5.00,
why not?!).
$5.00, why not indeed? :)
Opened it up and found two hard drives, both unplugged. One has an Apple
sticker, the other does not. The Apple drive is a Quantum ProDrive,
230MB. The other is a Seagate
Sque wrote:
Ken wrote:
Pulled logic board and reseated all RAM. Pulled dead PRAM battery,
waited 15 min and installed good battery.
Pulling the battery while the unit has a mains connection is a self
defeating test. In some cases (ppc is my only experience so far) the
mains and battery
Picked one of these today and brought it home to play with (for $5.00,
why not?!).
Opened it up and found two hard drives, both unplugged. One has an Apple
sticker, the other does not. The Apple drive is a Quantum ProDrive,
230MB. The other is a Seagate Lightning of unknown capacity. Plugged
[cross-posted to the MacAV list]
Hi,
My mom has had a Quadra 840AV for about 4 years. It has worked fine for her
basic needs -- mostly email and AppleWorks, some Photoshop 3.
It has 56mb RAM, a 2gb HD, runs OSv8.1
During the past few months, it has begun taking longer and longer to boot
At 1:13 PM -0600 2/5/2003, debkmaillist wrote:
[cross-posted to the MacAV list]
Hi,
My mom has had a Quadra 840AV for about 4 years. It has worked fine
for her basic needs -- mostly email and AppleWorks, some Photoshop 3.
It has 56mb RAM, a 2gb HD, runs OSv8.1
During the past few months, it has
No updates or anything lately? Has it been moved?
I had (have) an 840 that did the same thing (sort of) - except it would sit
for about 15-20 minutes, give a crash chime o' doom, then restart / start
up normally after that. I recall replacing the PRAM, giving the cables a
good re-attaching,
I've noticed that my G3 has begun to take a very long time to start as
well. 5 minutes, even if I do a restart from the pull down menu. 5
minutes no matter what. and 5 minutes of just a gray screen, with
nothing. Then it comes to a folder with a blinking question mark for
about 20 seconds,
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:17:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Mauricio Santana
Subject: Re: Quadra 840 AV???
In-Reply-To:
There is no ROM or cache card on the board. I have
tried starting up
using only one piece of RAM. I must have tried about
eight different
pieces,
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:45:13 -0800
Subject: Re: Quadra 840AV
From: James S Jones
In-Reply-To:
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Itchy send finger syndrome strikes again.
Since you're not getting a start up chime, but were when you found this
machine, I'd say your problems are in one
of Nancy I guess is
getting a copy of a bootable CD or a diskette.
Luckily, I was able to get a set of original Quadra 840AV system disks
on eBay, both the CD and the floppy. I have tried booting off of them
with no luck.
But if
the SCSI chain isn't properly installed (if the hard
disk has
figure it would most likely have less potential for
issues with the Quadra 840AV.
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What general area do you live in? Perhaps there is a list member near
you who can render some hands-on assistance.
Derek
Chicago, IL area.
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On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:45AM, James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Itchy send finger syndrome strikes again.
Since you're not getting a start up chime, but were when you found this
machine, I'd say your problems are in one (or more) of five areas: RAM,
VRAM, NuBus cards, the
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Quadlist)
Subject: Re: Quadra 840AV
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:26:02 +
I tried disconnecting the scsi cable from the motherboard, but still got
the same blank gray screen with the cursor up in the corner. No flashing
question mark, I'm sad to say. I
on 1/13/03 8:52 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have already established that the problem does nhot go away if she
completely disconnects all the internal SCSI devices. The above is, although
accurate, totally academic.
Try this
with only one ramstick firmly seated and no scsi
From: zhmmy harper
Subject: Re: Quadra 840AV
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:18:49 -0600
Message-ID:
Nancy,
Two things to try.
1. Drives usually require a teeny jumper on the back to be plugged in in a
particular way. Check with the mfr for proper configuration.
I downloaded the manual
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:16:10 -0600
Subject: Re: Quadra 840AV
From: R.A. Cantrell
Message-ID:
In-Reply-To:
on 1/13/03 8:52 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have already established that the problem does nhot go away if she
completely disconnects all the internal
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:49:23 -0800
Subject: Re: Quadra 840AV
From: James S Jones
In-Reply-To:
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What sort of monitor to you have attached to it?
I have been working on it using two different monitors - a Nanao F2-17
with an adapter that has proven
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 00:34 Europe/London, SimPanda wrote:
Hi, it's me again - the one with the Quadra 840AV that has the gray
screen with nothing but the cursor up in the left upper corner.
My 840av has been to hell and back a few times,. It's had more hard
disks than a NAS unit
I tried disconnecting the scsi cable from the motherboard, but still got
the same blank gray screen with the cursor up in the corner. No flashing
question mark, I'm sad to say. I really thought this may have been the
problem since this began when I tried installing a 9 gig Barracuda. At
this
What sort of monitor to you have attached to it? Has it ever had a
NuBus video card in it? Have you tried starting it up with a TV monitor
connected to the RCA or S-Video jacks? How about toggling from TV to
monitor (cmdoptTV, I think). Did you replace the PRAM battery?
On Sunday, January 12,
Hi, it's me again - the one with the Quadra 840AV that has the gray
screen with nothing but the cursor up in the left upper corner.
When I've had the chance, I've taken the experienced advice of the
people on this forum, and have been trying various RAM cards in one slot
at a time with the same
SimPanda wrote:
Hi, it's me again - the one with the Quadra 840AV that has the gray
screen with nothing but the cursor up in the left upper corner.
Probably a real long shot but have you tried disconnecting the scsi
cable from the mother board and then trying to boot from the floppy.
Just
At 12:34 AM 1/12/2003 +, you wrote:
Hi, it's me again - the one with the Quadra 840AV that has the gray
screen with nothing but the cursor up in the left upper corner.
I've had a couple Macs do this when I accidently plug the SCSI cable into
the mobo or HD upside down. First thing I'd try
At 11:52 PM + 12/28/2002, SimPanda wrote:
I have a Quadra 840AV that I found one day on my way home from work. I
brought it home, hooked it up to my monitor and keyboard, and found it
worked just fine. I decided to do a few upgrades on it by adding memory
and filling the vram slots. Since
Sounds like something I had going on with one of mine... even tried it with
one known good memory module that turned out to be not-so-good, and was
causing the problem (though it would sit there for half an hour, finally
give the not-quite-chimes-crash, and I could reboot and use it...)
Try
I have a Quadra 840AV that I found one day on my way home from work. I
brought it home, hooked it up to my monitor and keyboard, and found it
worked just fine. I decided to do a few upgrades on it by adding memory
and filling the vram slots. Since then I can not get it to start up
again. When I
Hello. I've been using my Quadra 840av to capture
some video clips with the Apple Video Player. It
works well. I transferred the clips to an iMac
ruinning OS 9.2.2 and a beige G3 running OS 8.6. The
clips play well on the newer Quicktime player. I
tried to use them on a PC running XP using
Hello. I've been using my Quadra 840av to capture
some video clips with the Apple Video Player. It
works well. I transferred the clips to an iMac
ruinning OS 9.2.2 and a beige G3 running OS 8.6. The
clips play well on the newer Quicktime player. I
tried to use them on a PC running XP using
Hello. I've been using my Quadra 840av to capture
some video clips with the Apple Video Player. It
works well. I transferred the clips to an iMac
ruinning OS 9.2.2 and a beige G3 running OS 8.6. The
clips play well on the newer Quicktime player. I
tried to use them on a PC running XP using
--- John Kocijanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I've been using my Quadra 840av to capture
some video clips with the Apple Video Player. It
works well. I transferred the clips to an iMac
ruinning OS 9.2.2 and a beige G3 running OS 8.6. The
clips play well on the newer Quicktime
I looked through the old messages and saw that Mark Benson was going to be
trying this out, but I don't see if we ever learned the answer, so here
goes:
Has anyone successfully used 64 MB SIMMs in a Quadra 840av? If so, what were
the specs.
Sorry if this is redundant, but I looked for any news
I looked through the old messages and saw that Mark Benson was going to be
trying this out, but I don't see if we ever learned the answer, so here
goes:
Has anyone successfully used 64 MB SIMMs in a Quadra 840av? If so, what were
the specs.
Sorry if this is redundant, but I looked for any news
Well, I finally got around to using my Quadra for some home video work, but
I can't seem to figure out how to make the S-Video out actually do
anything. There doesn't seem to be any cpl or other, though I'm probably
missing something obvious ;)
I recently lost my mailing list archives so I
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