KEVIN Lock wrote:
I was investigating some problems in a G3 (beige) and when I attached
a monitor and cranked it up the monitor does not get up. The monitor
is good and works on other Macs.
Is there such a thing as a power fuse on board the G3?
Is the Mac good and works on other monitors?
Are there any other (even unrelated) probs?
Is it trying to boot 9 or 10?
This was happening to me recently, a bit like an iMac with a dead
display and noise from the box and power light is on.
It would 'sometimes' come up as 9 booted especially after PRAM resets.
So it wasn't completely consistent, however it was quickly getting worse
and given enough time I believe it would have not worked at all like yours.
Occasionally it would come up as 10.3.9 booted, only to reveal kernel
panics.
It was really doing my head in till I saw bad display artefacts during
an attempted 10.2 CD boot.
Bad RAM. Sheesh!
This is the second Mac I've met with bad RAM, the first was our first, a
6100/66.
There were a few other enigmatic bugs under 9, this together with it's
fruity on screen behaviour and kernel panics led me to the RAM.
Now fixed, and I have to say it is going like a trooper.
Thanks to MemTest, XPostFacto and PatchBurn.
It was the G3s first OSX install.
No upgrades, aside from some new RAM of course ;) and it is a very
capable OSX box for the mum and dad audience.
Good Luck
Paul
