Power mac G3 won't start

[dezt]

I have inherted a nice turquoise powermac G3 from my dad. very nice of him to give it to me for free, only 1 little problem, it does not boot at all. It starts to boot, but nothing happens, the power light comes on but there is no display.

 

I have tried changing the memory with some that works, but it still doesn't work.

 

Does any one have any ideas?

[woody]

Have you tried this:

 

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300537

[choran]

Hi

It may be that the backlight on the display has died.

Before going down that road, do you have and original boot CD for it?

Try booting from cd (hold C key down when switching on with cd in drive)

Alternatively you can boot from another mac if you have one.

Join them with a firewire lead and switch on the faulty ont holding the T key down to boot in target mode

If either of these work you should be able to use disk utility to check the hard disk - if not could be a hdd problem

Caitriona

[dezt]

There is no display on this mac, its the powermac g3 tower, not the imac that looked like a monitor.

 

unfortunatly I have no cd's for it, I think my dad picked it up from a car boot sale.

 

I don't have access to any other macs, so connecting it via a firewire port is out of the question.

 

Would it boot from a linux live cd?

[mark9000]

Hi

 

If you get no video (black screen) and cannot here any noise from inside, drive spinning, it is probably a PSU issue.

Repair/replace is probably not worth it.

PS. The Blue and white G3 towers don't target disc or boot by FireWire.

[dezt]

Thanks for the advice, I've been blessed with a G4 tower now, my dad got it for me off ebay, it all works fine so i think i'll just use the G3 for spares.