I acquired a G3 AIO this past weekend that was sadly a battery bomb victim. I installed a spare G3 desktop board but it doesn't boot at all. Someone I was on Discord mentioned something about jumpers to set the board as a tower, desktop, or AIO and I'm just wondering...is that true? If it is...
Yeah, tried replacing the power card, and now with both a new power card and a new DC in board it's still faulty, so I gotta wonder if something is wrong on the CPU card.
The only one of those I found on eBay is $40 shipped so I hope I don't need one...I can try swapping the other power board from my working Lombard into the Pismo, though.
I recently got a Pismo (with a 500MHz PPC7410 upgrade!) but it's...seemingly completely dead? Plugging in my 45W yo-yo adapter does absolutely nothing, neither does the key combination for a PRAM reset. Is something fried? Do I need a different power adapter?
I hate to necro my own thread, but I added a CF to IDE adapter to the PDQ and now it won't boot off a CD any more? I have no idea why, I'm using the same CD as before.
So! I left the PDQ plugged in overnight, tried it again, and it magically works now? I was able to boot off a CD at last!
Maybe the backup battery just needed some juice?
I finally got a CD-ROM drive for my PDQ that had come without one, but it's not even trying to boot from it, even with me holding down the C key. Now, this PDQ is weird about starting up and doesn't even show a green LED when powered on, so maybe there's a power problem? Could this be PRAM...
I paid $125 for this one but it came loaded (maxed RAM, the full AV kit, USB card, etc). Don't regret it it all!
The 9.1 install needs to go, though. This system just doesn't have the grunt for OS 9.