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Recently my monitor displayed signs of "glichiness". Brief flickers durning scrolling and the like. I opened her up and reseated the vid and ram cards. Now, it won't startup at all, not even off nortons/system cd (held c, option/apple/delete) I hear the chime but I cant hear the drive spin like it usually does during startup. The monitor just clicks back to off upon stattup. I've tried reseating them like 10x, tried resetting the guda chip, taking out all but the monitor/powerplug....argh. ANy suggestions?????
I've already tried my roomates....same deal. I'm using his crappy windows machine to type this right now. Need to fix my mac before I go crazy... I've also tried starting in OF (cmd-opt-o-f) and still no dice.
I'd make sure that when you placed the memory chips back in they are all the way in. Also, it could be the memory chip is bad. The monitor card might need to be replaced.
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Response Number 4
Name: the pickle Date: July 2, 2002 at 08:47:05 Pacific
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I doubt bad RAM would cause the monitor problem, but poorly-reseated RAM certainly could cause the non-boot problem :)
Likewise with the video card; make SURE you got it fully seated.
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