[DuoList] found a 2400c w/ G3 upgrade -- it has issues

[Marion Bates]

I'm just about to do that, thanks!

It's still being pretty picky...I inserted the modem card that had
been in its slot before the big take-apart, and it promptly froze. I
had to then go through some more (brief this time) contortions with
the reset button and power button to get it to boot again.

Also, this makes me sad -- every reboot since that first one, at a
certain point after the happy Mac but before the inits are loaded, I
get the message, "The built-in memory test has detected a problem with
cache memory. Please contact a service technician for assistance." It
continues to boot and stuff, but, that's a worrisome message.

Is the cache part of the G3 upgrade card?

-- MB

On 10/20/06, kyleen at fusiongraphics.org <kyleen at fusiongraphics.org> wrote:
> I'd be sure to zap the pram now that it booted.
>
> Just sayin'...
>
> - kyleen
> Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless handheld
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Marion Bates" <the.bates at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:15:41
> To:duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: [DuoList] found a 2400c w/ G3 upgrade -- it has issues
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been combing the list archives and trying things suggested there
> -- you folks are a heck of a good resource.  :)  But my machine's
> behaving in a way that doesn't seem to _exactly_ match what I've seen
> so far, so, here's its story:
>
> .... OMG while I was typing this, it finally booted up! Wow.
>
> (Still gonna post this in case anyone else finds it helpful.)
>
> It came with two batteries and no power adapter, so I used one from a
> PB G3 (skinny black brick style, not yo-yo style, but I dunno if that
> matters). I couldn't get it to boot up (been trying all day), but I
> was getting a sort of "mixture" of the GLOD and the click -- sometimes
> there'd also be a sort of truncated startup chime, as though it didn't
> have quite enough power to sustain the echoey end of the chime. Weird.
>
> I repeatedly tried various combinations of reset button with and
> without power adapter/battery, with and without holding down the
> button for 1 minute or more, etc. but the result was always that I'd
> get a temporary green light and/or a small speaker click and/or
> truncated chime, but never anything more.
>
> I took the whole thing apart, hoping that reseating everything (it has
> a NuPowr upgrade and extra RAM) would help. But nothing changed.
>
> Just now, I idly hit the power button, heard the click and truncated
> chime, I shrugged and resumed typing this message...and suddenly it
> came to life, and seems to be working perfectly!  :)  :)  :)  Dunno
> why...all I can say to someone else with a sickly machine is, don't
> give up! This PMU thing is completely nondeterministic.
>
> Thanks for all your past posts, they sure help me revive this thing!
>
> -- MB
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