At 9:44 PM -0400 10/9/05, Andrew MacDougall wrote:
My beige tower gives a startup chime and then goes to a white screen where
it prints:
$d, unknown word
I've removed and reseated every card, ram chip and cable to try and get
past this with no luck. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the
drives as even with the SCSI and ATA cables disconnected from the
motherboard this continues. I've tried a different processor and ram chips
to no avail. I've removed the pram battery, pushed a reset button on the
motherboard all with no change.
Does anyone know what that message means? I'm suspecting the motherboard
is shot at this point, but would like to know for sure before doing
anything drastic. Please reply directly to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That sounds like an Open Firmware error.
Try this:
At boot hold down Command-Option-O-F. This puts you into the Open
Firmware interpreter.
reset-all (Return)
It should then reboot.
Hopefully whatever was wrong is gone.
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