The original CPU is long gone. I also don't have the original hard drive and in fact don't have one installed at the moment. And I'm using the stock Apple SCSI CD-ROM.

Hadn't thought to try blind booting from a disc yet though. May have to try that tomorrow.

And I've been through more video cards than I could ever count, and I don't recall ever seeing one that requires the OS to load an extension/driver before giving even a low-res signal. Don't have the original video card, either. But if I had another running machine that would allow me to install OS 9 and the Radeon driver/extension on a drive, I'd definitely give it a shot.

I threw out so much Mac stuff last year, thinking I wouldn't even need any of it again. Drats.

SCSI disk mode isn't a bad idea either. But unfortunately there seems to be a sickness that has taken out both my 3400 and 9600.

I'm still just boggled as to why the system now gives me a video signal, but only for a second after powering on.

And the PRAM zap keyboard command still wont take, either.