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Solution?? -may be worth trying
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 28, '03 12:53:33PM

I have managed to resurrect a dead iMac (Slot Loading 400mhz, No vga monitor output) that was suffering from a black monitor after installing OS 10.2 without first installing the firmware update (Doh!).
Here's what worked for me:
I had 2 memory chips in the machine. One was the original 64Mb one the other was a 128Mb chp I had installed some time ago.
I unplugged the machine and removed the 128Mb chip. I then restarted...Black screen.
I then turned off the power and re-installed the 128Mb chip. When I restarted I had enough of a picture (it was blue and blurred) to be able connect to the network and copy over the Firmware update and set OS 9 as the start up folder.
I then restarted...black screen again
So i repeated the power off - uninstall memory chip - restart - power off - re-install memory - restart routine and ended up with a blurry OS 9 desktop (green this time!!??) from which I was able to carry out the open firmware upgrade.
Now everything seems fine!

I'm sure this routine may not work for everyone with this incredibly frustrating problem, but it seems to have saved me an expensive trip to the Apple Dealer!

Al Fleming



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