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Was that the end of the line for your G3, or did it ever come back to life?

I absent-mindedly removed a stick of RAM and popped in a replacement while the computer was turned off BUT still plugged in to the wall outlet. Now it doesn't turn on. Removed the ram (while unplugged), still no love. Did I fry my Mac?

Thank you, this is very helpful. I think I'll give that a shot. Good old alcohol on a cotton q-tip for cleaning the contacts?

Thank you both, that's great to hear. Can that type of key be popped off relatively easily with a pry tool, or is their a scissor mechanism under there like on many of the later g-series PowerBooks?

Just for the sake of seeing what would happen, I took a hard drive I had laying around with OS 9 / X installed on it and put it in the PDQ. It begins starting up, gets to the :) but doesn't go any further than that. Same thing happens when I try booting off of an OS 9 CD.

Hey Gang-- Having some issues with my PDQ. The system refuses to boot. The farthest I've been able to get is the "Welcome to Mac OS" screen with my Mac OS 8.5 retail CD. Before it can display the progress bar, I get The Bomb with a system error occurred message: illegal instruction To...

Hi there. I just acquired a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. Previous owner says the N key is non-functional, so I'm planning to pop the key off and see what I can do to fix it. After a lot of searching, I can't find existing info on what type of mechanism is used under the keys on the TAM keyboard...