>Today (about 2 to 3 months later) I walked by, and noticed the fan is
>running on it. I haven't hooked up a monitor to it to see if it is indeed
>booted, but I will later. I'm afraid to turn it off again for fear that it
>won't boot.
If there was no monitor attached when it booted, then connecting one now
will NOT give you a picture. The Mac disables the video card on most
models if there isn't a monitor plugged in at the time of boot.
So if you connect one, and get no picture, that doesn't mean it isn't
running.
>That machine has broken SIMM sockets and I've got the SIMM's jimmied to
>stand straight with folded pieces of paper forced between the SIMMs. It
>seems to work reasonably well. Is it possible that a SIMM, slightly out of
>position, could cause the system to not power up (no fan, no power
>anywhere)?
A loose simm chip should have given you chimes of doom (or whatever the
IIci does, I think that one actually does a car crash noise) when it
booted. It might have done it if it booted when you weren't around. Now
it will be sitting at a sad mac screen waiting for you to do something.
But you can't tell, because no monitor is attached. :-)
-chris
<
http://www.mythtech.net>
Received on Fri May 28 2004 - 14:02:02 BST