G5 PPC everything OK, no display!
Hi,
I recently got a mint 1.8 GHz G5 (A1047). Everything seems to run fine (with 10.5.8 I put in a few years ago) except there's no display: the monitor remains black.
And I also can't open the DVD player (nothing happens when the key's pressed). The Apple keyboard comes from another computer and is OK.
So I checked the monitor, cable, video card, HDD & RAM on another G5 (2x2 Ghz) and there was no problem : it runs as always.
Only 2 RAM modules were faulty, so I put them away. I kept 2 x 512MB PC3200U modules and tested them successfully in the 2 x 2 GHz G5. They're also correctly installed and in the right slots, as instructed.
I also tried the 2 x 2 GHz G5 RAM modules and video card in the 1.8 GHz G5: nothing changed.
Some posts here mentionned resetting the PRAM and the SMU. I did and the 1.8 GHz still got no video.
Any idea or clue would be most welcome!
Thanks.
HDLH
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)