on 12/14/02 2:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My J700 has been sitting idle for several months. Today I connected it to its > old friend, an Apple 15" monitor, turned on the monitor, turned on the J700, > and no video signal ever came across. The green light never replaced the > amber light on the monitor's on switch. Tried another monitor; same story. > > I can hear the HD spinning, I can see the CD drive spinning when I try to > boot from a system or diagnostic cd, but no signal seems to be getting out > the back of the video card. I pressed the video cards down into their slots > (yes, there are two video cards) to be sure they're seated, and both monitors > worked as recently as day before yesterday. > I occasionally have no-video problems on my S900 that may be related to OS9.1 and energy saver "sleep" mode. I restart and hear the startup chime, but nothing else happens. No video, no startup. It's happened with both IMS Ultimate-Rez and ATI Mach 64 in the machine separately at different times. The only thing that seems to work for me is to shutdown, remove the video card, (pressing CUDA for good measure), starting with NO video card installed (zapping PRAM for good measure), then shutting back down after I hear the disk going through the complete startup. I reinsert the video card, restart and I'm back in business. Oddly, this never happens while the case is open for weeks at a time, but typically happens immediately after I've buttoned everything up. ;) Charles -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
