[G4] Issues with my lucky find on saint patricks day.

[B G]

Do you have another machine to hook the monitor into, it might be bad.

BG
On Mar 18, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Brandon Sternburg wrote:

>
> I found one of those dusty old g4 gems lying in
> someones basement. it's a family number M5183 g4
> sawtooth. it is quite the beefy system already with
> all the ram slots full, two hard drives, a dvd writer
> and what appears to potentially be a third party G4
> upgrade. (maybe 1ghz) I wish i knew more but my issue
> is that it is not giving signal to the monitor!!
>
> The machine starts up with a green light in front(not
> sure if this is the average color) it makes the start
> up tone and it sounds as it it's running perfectly.
> But for some reason the video is not making it to the
> monitor (which stinks because a massive 21' studio
> display came with this thing.) I have also noticed
> there is no power making it to the keyboard and mouse
> either until sometimes after startup which means i
> can't zap the pram or do any other keyboard combos to
> mess with it.
>
> What i've done so far was to repace the video card
> with a newer model ati agp but no help. I've hit the
> internal NVram button and also no change still cannot
> power the mouse and keyboard ut strangely the power
> button does start it up but after the tone everything
> goes lame.
>
> anyone have any suggestions?!?
>
>
>
>
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