The 6116 has a port designed specifically for the AudioVision 14. There's an adaptor, but its hard to find. I bought a sonnet crescendo card and installed a video card kinda where the DOS card goes in the DOS compatable machine.
It *sounds* like you need a new pram battery. Mine will do the exact same thing if the pram bettery is missing/dead Sometimes turning on and off the power and some rebooting via keyboard in some random pattern will get things to work. The tabs, even though they are pretty stout, bend and un-snap from the back of the machine, and the top flips toward you. Its by far my favorite machine. Good luck :) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, smac0031 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just came in to possession of a Performa 6116. It was lying dead on > a table at work and the IT guys said I could have it. > > Anyway, I hooked it up and powered it up and I could hear the hard > drive spin up and the monitor stayed dark and pretty much nothing > happened after that. > > I tried booting from a CD and nothing happened but the hard drive spun > up. > > What I think is happening is that someone at work tried to load this > thing with OS X not knowing it wouldn't work. I tried just booting my > SuperMac s900 with an OS X boot disk and found out why you shouldn't > do it. Just booting the computer this boot disk overwrote the pram so > nothing worked. After that all it would do is chime and spin up the > hard drive, like this Performa does now. > > What I would like to try is completely disconnecting the thing from > any power source and removing the Pram battery overnight. Then, the > next day hitting the cuda switch and draining the pram which should > set the computer back to factory specs. Then I should be able to tell > if the thing is functional. > > My main problem is how do you get the thing apart? There are two tabs > on the top back that don't seem to do anything. I have a > contemporaneous Performa 6220. All you have to do with that is remove > two screws and pull the handle and you pull out the motherboard. You > get at the drives by removing front. > > This Performa 6116 is a mystery to me. > > I have two other questions. This thing some sort of graphics port on > the back I've never seen. It has and adapter which is about six inches > long that connects to a Mac monitor. What is this? > > Also, it has this odd little port that the IT guy said was an ethernet > port. This was no rj45 I've ever seen. It was oval shaped and looked > like it is positioned where the PDS card would go. I have a PDS (I > think that's what it's called) for my 6220 with an ethernet port in > it. Any ideas about this. > > Thanks. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
