The first one from 1993, with everything including the Quicktime Conferencing Kit, got lost in my parents storage shed.
The 2nd and 3rd, one stopped booting and the other took 2 days to warm up before it would boot. That was back from 2005 to 2008, after 2008 I had the one that took 2 days, but as of last year it just would get to where the arrow in the top left would show up and you could move it but nothing, no sad mac, no question mark, just a cursor that sat. The ethernet died on it and I replaced it with an asante ethernet card but after that checked out and worked, I powered it off and stopped using it for about 3 months, because I had to handle my dad's cancer, and now that that's over (recovered from cancer) I tried to fire it up and just the arrow.
I got it re-capped from uniserver to maybe see if that could fix it but, it's in the mail, should be getting it tomorrow, he said no dice. I am going to try putting the ethernet card in and connecting it. I am wondering if the board is trying to load the default drivers for the ethernet port/chip or what. I don't know what else I could do.
I had a G4 MDD that had a burnt out FW400 and a burnt out Digital Audio speaker port/chip. I went in with extensions off in OS 9/X and took out the drivers for the FW400 and the Audio, and booted that up and that works great. I am wondering if the same thing is happening with the #3 840 with the ethernet.
Well see.
As far as the audio card, this is the best manual I have:
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/playstation-sound-artist-dtl-h700-dtl-s710-docs.10146/
No dice so far but I haven't hooked up my MOTU828 for the DAT option or the Midi stuff, (cables everywhere) "Trip Like I do Video"
But this one runs REALLY WELL. I am sending it off for recap, on Monday.
It's got about 20 different extension manager settings!! haha
In my initial tries, I am getting the "big blank white check" (ctrl-apple-power)!
So, I am not quite ready to go thru startups and all that till the re-cap.
I asked him what programs take advantage of the card, but he was vague.
He did say he just hooked it up to an amp with optical and it play audio.
Something's kinda fishy. Cause the manual doesn't say anything about audio out as far as general use.
it does say AIFF, but everywhere I look I see DAT DAT DAT
The only thing broken was the floppy. But I have a backup one sitting in the corner.
What kinda maintenance can I do, for the floppy? WD40? jk what tho...
All in all tho I am happy because I got the Midi Studio Back.
Laters...
Edit: But honestly this is just a toy for kids to learn on, because "today's" midi and audio tools, (Logic for instance) Blow this stuff away! By the 1000s!
but its a time piece for me.
