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Operating System / 3400c Screen Scramble?
January 10, 2011, 20:40 |
Finally managed to get my parents' old AppleColor down here, and found out that I don't have the cable to match the port on the computer. Argh. Resetting the memory and LCD ribbon cable hasn't helped. I'm working on this one as I have the time, but since that's not too often, and I don't have all the parts I need to hand, it's slow going. Sorry! |
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Operating System / 3400c Screen Scramble?
December 30, 2010, 23:15 |
Well, resetting the ram did clear the error 11's I was getting, but did little or nothing to fix the screen. I've left it sitting with the battery out and unplugged, left it with the battery on the charger for two days, reset the PMU off the reset button a number of times, zapped the pram at least as many, and I have reseated the LCD cable. Just now I tried zapping the pram three times in a row and it went back to the error 11's. Oh, and some Norton thing is trying to run on restart and locks it up hard. I usually have to use the reset button because no set of keys will restart it. I've actually started the poor thing off the reset button a few times! I'm getting frustrated, and starting to worry that one of my favorite machines has gone to Parts Land. If someone could help me figure out what I'm missing, I would be much obliged. I have not as yet managed to get my hands on an external monitor. |
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Operating System / 3400c Screen Scramble?
December 24, 2010, 17:47 |
The PRAM zap (man I must have been tired last night!) helped a tad with reducing the amount of 'hashing', but when I reset the PMU it not only went back, I'm now getting Error 11's during boot. Ouch. It also does carry over bits of the images from boot to boot, which is odd, and makes it hard to tell what's really going on. Nothing like having a shredded bomb in four places! Starting to think I have a RAM issue of some sort? I don't have time to open it up now, especially since I haven't opened this series before-anyone have a link? I don't have an external monitor here, but I should be able to pick one up, along with a few other things, this afternoon and do some more testing later. Happy Whatever Holiday You Prefer, or have a good day if you prefer none! Sarah |
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Operating System / 3400c Screen Scramble?
December 24, 2010, 05:30 |
My 3400c running 7.6 had been working perfectly well, and even held a decent charge. I left it sitting off-charger with about a half charge two weeks ago, and today it wouldn't start off the battery, so I plugged it in, at which point it would start, but the screen was completely scrambled. Every image was mirrored at least twice and lines of pixels were hashed around randomly. The first boot, the cursor responded, and I managed to reboot it, but it didn't help. I tried to get the control panels up trying to fix the date and time (hard to see, but afaict it lost them), and the cursor froze; it hasn't responded since. Booting with extensions off hasn't helped. Right now I've left it plugged in and off in the hopes that charging will somehow help. Anyone have any other ideas? I don't have a set of rescue disks at the moment, although if someone would be so kind as to share where to get or how to make them I will do so very quickly! Thanks 
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New Member Welcome / I have a Mac...
December 04, 2010, 04:01 |
Apologies, I sometimes ramble a bit, and that often leads to me going off topic. |
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New Member Welcome / I have a Mac...
November 28, 2010, 22:24 |
I just forgot how to use it! I grew up with Macs (and the random DOS machine or two), from the Classic on. For the last few years, though, I've been out of the geek loop and for various reasons had to use WinBlows. Now that I can start to geek again, the first thing I did was put a workable Linux (and Haiku) on the laptop... and then I hit eBay for the computers I actually like. I have, in various stages of functionality, several laptops running everything from 10.4.11 down to 7.6. I'm typing this on a 3400c under 7.6, actually, and it has wiiiiiiings! I'm going back to school in the next year or so for computer things, and I personally love the idea of taking one of these 'obsolete' machines in to do light work. Unfortunately, I'm just out of practice using the older systems, even though I get less and less comfortable the further I get from 6 and 7. So I'm getting my toys now, and hopefully by the time I get back to school, I'll be fully in the game with them! From what I've seen, this looks like a very friendly group, and I hope you will be patient with me as I remember how I used to do things, and learn some new tricks! |
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