Being mostly a PC guy, I'll hazard a guess, but defer if anyone else puts in their opinion. This sounds like a classic PC Video Card failure - not that the card fails to initialize (1 long and 4 short beeps in most PC BIOS's), but that the video card never drives a monitor (making it useless). Swap with another video card.
You could verify this if it was on a network by pinging the box, and verifying that there is a response, meaning that the Max boots up. George D. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Graffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "StarMax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Uncooperative Starmax 5275 > > So here's the status. StarMax powers up...hard drive does its initial > boot sectors (guessing by noise/activity) and then fizzles...keyboard > lights don't flash (or is that a Windows thing?) and monitor never gets > a signal and goes active. > > Starting up from a CD is similar. Start StarMax, open CD tray, put in > CD, close tray, and hold down shift and C keys. Same hard drive flurry, > and then CD is accessed...it does a quick swipe or two and then back to > fizzle. > > So there is never any indication of startup activity other than the > power LED on the StarMax and the CD LED when when CD is in tray and > attempting to start from CD. > -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
