On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:25:16 -0700 Joe WF Runnels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I also had totally disassembled it, this includes taking apart the PSU,
>and now that its all back together, it doesn't really want to boot, it
>bongs, and the monitor comes on liek its going to get a signal, but there
>is no video, I hate opening the thing up, as many of you know, I'm sure,
>the 8500 case is not the best design made by Apple.

I hope you didn't touch any of the video ICs on the bottom of the board -
they are static sensitive. You drilled out all pop rivets on the PSU as
well?

>Another problem I
>have is using the regular VGA connector on my Radeon 7000 card, because I
>can't plug the monitor cable into it cause its too close to the edge of
>the PCI slot, are there any fixes for this besides a dremel?

I threaded the supplied adaptor to the 7000 carefully until it just bit the
plastic edging and got it to work.

Charlie



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