>Last week I installed new RAM in my 8500. I'm running OS 9.1 with a G3
>500 card and a video card.
>
>Now when I hit my power up key on the key board I get chimes but no boot
>up. The monitor light goes green but then begins to blink. I have to do
>a forced reboot to get the computer up. I've run Nortons and fixed all
>problems but it is still doing it.
>
>Linda
It's unfortunate that it's an 8500 and so difficult to mess around
in but it sounds like the voodoo I had with my 8500 except mine would not
reboot either - turned out to be just bad connections - processor not
happily seated and a bad cache.
I eventually got it sorted by bareboning the hardware - one stick of
ram and no cache no pci cards no cd and holding the cuda for thirty
seconds or more and zapping the pram before the chimes end (does
something to the vram - Jeff Walther can elucidate) - then adding it back
bit by bit until I hit a problem. Handy to have the original processor
for a second opinion.
Mine still has a problem that I haven't tackled yet - it thinks
there's a tv as well as a monitor connected to it - tried dragging them
together in the control panel but nothing. Mind you the AV panel is
missing.....I must get one of those.
Pete
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