Ditto! I had the same issue with my 6100 On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Christian Wacker <[email protected]>wrote:
> No PRAM BATTERY == dead PRAM battery. > Do the one thing everyone frowns upon with a working machine: power it on > for a few seconds and then toggle it off and on quickly. That should leave > enough juice in the board for it to boot :) > (it works with my PM 6100 and my performa 536cd) > > Sent from my Windows Mobile 6.5 Pro LG Fathom. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce - in Orlando <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:45 PM > To: Vintage Macs <[email protected]> > Subject: LC580/6500/G3 lost its video > > I have an LC 580 with the following upgrades: > - Replaced original motherboard with one from a Power Mac 6500 > - Added a Sonnet G3 accelerator to the 6500 board > - Also added one of those nifty Orange Micro USB/Firewire combo cards > > All this was done years ago and I used this computer for quite a > while, so I know there was nothing wrong with any of the way all these > were installed. However, this olde mac has been sitting unused for > about a year, and when I fired it up a couple days ago just to see how > it was doing, it chimed and seemed to be booting up but has no video. > > In the old days I would have known the sequence to troubleshoot, but > now I can't decide what to do. I seem to recall that a dead PRAM > battery can cause the macs to lose video, but having no PRAM battery > at all does not - so I removed the PRAM battery, no luck. > > What are the next few steps? Re-seat the RAM? Remove all the fun > stuff (accelerator & combo card)? Then what? > > Thanks for any pointers, > > Bruce - in Orlando > > -- > ----- > 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/ > -- ----- 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/
