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> From: smac0031 <[email protected]>
> 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.
**The 6100's series Mac's play dead if the PRAM battery is dead, That would be
my first suspect.**
>
> 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.
**Nah**
> 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.
**No Cuda**
>
> 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.
The plastic tabs on these old guys are very brittle and will break with very
little stress. However, the tabs are how you open it. Rather than trying to ply
them with your fingers. Disconnect all cables and cords, put the 6115 on end an
carefully use a flat blade screw driver or a putty knife to pry the tabs open.
The top should pop off.
>
> 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?
**HD-45, Apple proprietary**
> 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.
AAIU 15, Apple proprietary easily found used on SWAP List for $5 or so. The PDS
is usually use for CPU upgrades. A G3/300 is a nice.
The 6100 series was the low end of the 61/71/8100 1st PowerMac's. However they
can recognize 268 MB RAM and with the proper G3 upgrade with AV or HPV card
can
be still very useful and handle up to 2 MB of VRAM.
I have four 6100s's and recently put one back in service to handle my FileMaker
database when my 7100's power supply failed.
Good luck --glen
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