As Mr. johnsinho's! said, I removed both IDE cables (no SCSI external or
internal) and powered it up again. The chime sounded and the light lighted.
and the floppy icon with a blinking '?' appeared. But i donīt own a mac
start up disk so, nothing to do with that. I unplugged the power again and
the yesterday symptoms repated: chime and light and fan but blank
screen(black, the monitor acts like itīs been unplugged from the compu).
Gonna try starting fom the CD to see what happens. And Iīve already
removedthe network and USB cards but all the same
Sometimes when I plug the HDD again to some IDE channel, a white (or very
light gray) screen with an '_' appears. and no more. It always chimes and
everything.
I have a Western Digital 20 Gigs HD configured to be cable select, a Sony
Master burner and a slave Iomega Zip 100 in the same cable. Them cables
seem fine, or at least as fine as most PC trashed cables I own.
I appreciate the wide response of you people in the list. This is my first
Mac and I am very happy with it. All this happened since yesterday when
erased another HDD to install MacOS X.
Thank you very much
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Kummel" <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] Please Help...My G3 just died
>
> I think you need to give us a bit more information
> than just "it didn't work".
> What didn't work? When you hit the power button, does
> anything happen? Lights light, fans spin, startup
> chime bongs? How about the start up POST? (that's
> short hand for Power On Self Test) I seem to remember
> on the older Macs, the rounding of the corners
> indicates the level of the POST the machine reaches
> before a hardware failure hits. (ever wonder why the
> Mac screen had rounded corners?)
> Please give as much detail about your startup as you
> can, including drive type (SCSI/IDE) Drive
> configuration (bus-1 = one drive, bus-2 = CD rom
> drive, or whatever) Hard drive brand...and whether
> they are setup for
> Master/Slave/Cable-select...Additionally, how much RAM
> you have and what other slotted cards you have
> installed.
> With these pieces of the puzzle we can make better
> guesses at what the problem could be...
> Ed
> web/gadget (used to be a Mac Admin) Guru
>
> --- W Izzy <izzy_at_phreaker.net> wrote:
> >
> > Greeteings.
> >
> > I am sorry about posting this but the local mac guru
> > isnīt available.
> > Earlier today I unplugged the HD from my beige G3
> > tower and plugged a new
> > one and didnīt work. So I plugged the original and
> > nothig happened.
> > Sometimes when I unplug all the ATA cables the
> > monitor shows a gray screen
> > (nothing more) and then shows nothing (black)
> >
> > maybe some of you know what to do
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> =====
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