---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G3 B&W powers up, but no sound and no video Date: Dienstag 05 Januar 2010N From: Kasey Smith <kasm...@gmail.com> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > The hard disk is the original (!) Quantum Firebird EX 12 GB from > > 1998/99. For > > it's more than ten years it still works amazingly well. I made an > > image of its > > contents using an external USB drive enclosure just to be on the > > safe side. > > (Doesn't support S.M.A.R.T. at all.) > > This is because USB does not support S.M.A.R.T. If you plug it into a > working computer with an internal IDE bus it will work. Thanks. You're right, it shows when it's installed inside. > Anyway, > unplugging the machine, opening it, removing the PRAM battery, press > and hold the button nearest the battery (the one not labeled :POWER:) > This got my G3 B&W running just fine. Mine is a 400MHz rev.2 btw... No success. I removed the PRAM battery, did hold the button for a while, released it and powered on without the battery. Since this didn't make it work I decided to press the button right after powering on. When holding the button and trying to power on, nothing happens. BTW, the other button actually IS a power button. So, I guess I have to trash it. Too bad. Anyway, thanks for your help. Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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