I have had a lot of Beige G3's and one did go mute. I solved the problem by just replacing the personality card. One thing that you might try is zapping the pram. Turn on the computer and hold down: Command + Options + P + R. Hold these keys until the computer restarts about 3 times. Usually you would measure when it restarts by when it chimes but in your case that won't work. You might try looking at the keyboard lights to tell you. -Jonas
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM, leighkimmel <leighkim...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Recently the PRAM battery on my faithful old G3/233 desktop died. When > I put in a new battery and started it up, I suddenly had no sound. No > startup chime, no system alerts, no music from CD, nothing. When I go > into the Monitors & Sound control panel, it shows a blank for sound > output, as if it doesn't even know it has the capacity to handle > sound. > > On the recommendation of my brother, a computer engineer, I pulled the > Personality Card and reseated it, but it still can't tell it's got the > capacity to play sound. I even finally did the upgrade from 8.1 to 8.6 > that I'd been intending to get around to forever, but it did not > resolve the situation -- and it screwed up my Palm Desktop, so I may > have to go back to 8.1 to get that back (I'm still using an old Palm > VIIx until it finally gives up the ghost). > > Does anybody have any experience with beige G3's losing their sound > when the PRAM battery is changed? I'd really like to be able to play > CD's on it while I'm working -- I can listen to Internet radio on the > G4 laptop (the machine I'm using to type this), but it tends to get > hot if run for too long. > > Thanks! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
