Wow, just read my own message. Glad I was writing in my native tongue, no clue how much more unreadable it would have been if I'd tried to alternate-language things.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Mike Bonner <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course do all of this while being careful of static. > > Out of curiosity, with the previous dead card in place, did you get > bong, no video, but a lit up keyboard? assuming you have keyboard > lights that flash when its found. Does the keyboard light up with the > new card at all during the detection phase? Are you sure its not > actually booting headless? If you have another machine, and the > ill-mannered one is setup for remote admin, can you confirm that its > not actually up? > > As I mentioned before I don't know much about older macs specificall, but.. > > Can the mac g4 run with a single memory chip installed? If so, you > might try playing a game of musical memory. Try 1 chip at a time and > see if you get video with a single. (don't know if it requires dual > memory banks to be filled or not) > > Also, might want to remove any other pci cards that are in the machine > leaving only video, as well as do the same test again with the old > video card. > > Finally, if your keyboard has lights that cycle during detection, can > you pull all video cards out of the machine and see if things cycle up > sans video card? > > Are you sure the card you replaced with is compatible with the version > of g4 you have? > > A silly thing to check, if your motherboard has additional socketed > types of chips, you might nudge them also just to make sure they're > still seated well enough, and strangely enough if they've managed to > get oxidization on any contacts a nudge can help break things loose > and get things reconnected. (LIke the old atari st, after years of > service then tended to turn into paperweights. The solution was to > take off the plastic housing and twist the inside clamshell case > gently between your hands, causing the connection between the 2 halves > to clear and clean themselves due to friction) > > I was just reading a little, is your monitor hooked powered through an > ADC connector? If so, might check the little cable for that is > connected. (again, running a little blind when it comes to the older > macs) > > A computer engineer at this point would indeed be handy. > > Wish I could sell you my mac pro, but due to various things beyond my > control alas its not really feasible. > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 08/21/2010 11:21 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: >>> >>> Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: >>> >>> Is this the point where I try to find a computer engineer????? >>> >>> No, this is the point at which you make a Hackintosh! >>> >>> Peter >>> >> >> Actually I am at the stage where my sense of humour has worn very very thin >> indeed; I have to get tge bl**dy machine functioning again; and having had a >> day >> of "fun" at the Bulgarian customs being charged an extra $40 dollars to get >> my >> 'import' from the USA just to get my expensive video card I am very close to >> tears. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
