Recent content by FoaRyan

I had 2 installed, and tried each one in the 1st slot (numbered #8 and #9, so I used #8). It didn't seem to affect the boot sequence. Press the kb power button, then it makes a "neutral" sound within 1 second, and within 1-2 more seconds the death chime. Also of note, having the HDD...

I have a Power Macintosh / PowerPC 5200/75LC that won't boot past a certain point. It powers on and begins to boot, but before anything appears on the screen it plays the sad chime. I did post about this a couple months ago but may have been in the wrong area of the forums, sounds like "LC"...

Have thought about the HDD being dead. From the sounds I hear at startup - which overlap so it's difficult for me to discern what's what - it could be the HDD trying to spin up then failing. Since the screen never illuminates I don't know if it would be trying to display anything. I've left it...

Thanks for the welcome & the link! I have looked over a bit of the repair manual, and generally it says things like "replace the logic board" or "replace the CRT" which is not quite as specific as I'm hoping to get. Lots of good reference for further troubleshooting once this can be figured out...

From an audio-only perspective, it sounds like you're describing compression. Not as in mp3 digital compression but more like noise gating. If this were a guitar or guitar amp maybe cleaning the potentiometers would help, but I'm not sure what would cause it on a computer. How low does the...

Hello! This is my first post here but I've browsed, read, and learned for a few months with a renewed interest in 90s Macintosh computers. I have a PowerPC 5200/75LC that has been mine since my high school dumped their fleet in a stairwell back in like 2000... I wanted to get them all then, but...