At 12:02 PM -0400 5/7/2009, photoartcom wrote: >I replaced the 3.6V battery, tested the battery which registered >good. In the beginning I used the reset button to jump start the >computer, which worked for a week. Now it only lights up and no >noise. Its not the power because it lights up right? . Do you >think if I replaced the mother board, I could get some power into it. >I unplugged everything except the key-board and monitor, with the >same results. what is your thoughts?
At this point, it could be either the power supply or motherboard. Strip the machine down a bit. No externals except keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Pull the PCI cards and video card. Hit the CUDA button (reset the PMU) *once*. Then try booting... see if you can at least the "no gots memory!" beeps. What specific PowerMac do you have? Is it a GigE or? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
