I replaced the battery this morning. Plugged everything back firmly and tried to start up. Alas, I'm getting the same symptoms that I attributed to a dead battery. I hear chime. Monitor starts to lighten, then goes black. I can hear HD spin. Tried to boot from Disk Warrior by holding C key (the CD tray opens and accpts a disk) --nada. Tried P-RAM, chimes once, then goes black.
When I had these symptoms on my 4200DT it turned out to be a bad PCI riser card. At first I suspected the Voodoo3 PCI graphics card, since the problem went away when I removed it. But it worked OK when I replaced the 3-slot riser, as did everything else.
You could try taking out the riser to see if the 'Max will boot - mine worked without one for a while. I got a replacement on eBay which I *think* came from a Power Mac 4400 - it had a grey metal plate I had to remove so it would fit. But I've since seen 4400 risers that look somewhat different from the StarMax ones, so care is needed. Five-slot risers I know nothing about.
Good luck. --- Chris Adams, Copenhagen, Denmark. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.tiscali.dk/cadams/
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