Thanks to someone on another forum, I got access to a Quadra 840av. Long story short, I bought it for $75, because it did not post. The person selling it was about as illiterate about macs as I am therefor I was hoping it would be a simple fix, and worst case scenario, the main board needing a re-capping.
It arrived this morning, very well packaged. It is significantly yellowed. I would call it "fair" condition:
I have 2 extra bezels, one for a cd drive, and another blank one. I will need to test my JB-WELD skills as 2 tabs broke off during shipping. These were on the front face. Anyway its not a big deal. I crack the box open, and remove all the accessories that were packed inside. Extra video card, network adapter, keyboard, cable, etc. I remove the 4 completely random looking ram sticks, in favor of 2x 32mb simms from my quadra 660av. Thus eliminating the possibility of bad ram. I also take the original looking pram battery out and pop in a new one for good measure.
I apply power and IT POSTS, then boots to system 7.5! This image represents how I looked at the time:
In my zeal, I power the system down, remove the hard drive. For some reason it had a 160mb affair in it. I shrugged and laid it aside. I figure I will use in it my LCIII as a system stock drive. I also install the apple cd drive from my 660av as well. I boot it up again to see if it would take the 8.1 install I had on the drive. Instead I get the standard post chime and a grey screen. (moveable mouse cursor)
I shrug it off, thinking I'll need to use my boot cd and re-format. I decide to see if the add-on video card I got worked. I figured it would be better to do it now than after I close it up.
Slot #2 already had its cover gone so I pushed the card in with a satisfying click move the video cable and hit the power button. NOTHING. no post. no beeps. It doesn't look to be a special card but I had to know. Here is a picture:
Here is where everything goes tits-up. From here on out, the machine refuses to post. (no sound, no video) Nothing I know to do has worked, including:
removing ALL cables
re-seating the cpu
re-seating the ram
different ram
cmd+opt+P+R
goat sacrifice
all caps look PERFECT, including in the psu. The board looks brand spanking new.
no visible physical defects
I figure now is a good time to take a break and ask for assistance from those that might know what they are doing.
It arrived this morning, very well packaged. It is significantly yellowed. I would call it "fair" condition:
I have 2 extra bezels, one for a cd drive, and another blank one. I will need to test my JB-WELD skills as 2 tabs broke off during shipping. These were on the front face. Anyway its not a big deal. I crack the box open, and remove all the accessories that were packed inside. Extra video card, network adapter, keyboard, cable, etc. I remove the 4 completely random looking ram sticks, in favor of 2x 32mb simms from my quadra 660av. Thus eliminating the possibility of bad ram. I also take the original looking pram battery out and pop in a new one for good measure.
I apply power and IT POSTS, then boots to system 7.5! This image represents how I looked at the time:
In my zeal, I power the system down, remove the hard drive. For some reason it had a 160mb affair in it. I shrugged and laid it aside. I figure I will use in it my LCIII as a system stock drive. I also install the apple cd drive from my 660av as well. I boot it up again to see if it would take the 8.1 install I had on the drive. Instead I get the standard post chime and a grey screen. (moveable mouse cursor)
I shrug it off, thinking I'll need to use my boot cd and re-format. I decide to see if the add-on video card I got worked. I figured it would be better to do it now than after I close it up.
Slot #2 already had its cover gone so I pushed the card in with a satisfying click move the video cable and hit the power button. NOTHING. no post. no beeps. It doesn't look to be a special card but I had to know. Here is a picture:
Here is where everything goes tits-up. From here on out, the machine refuses to post. (no sound, no video) Nothing I know to do has worked, including:
removing ALL cables
re-seating the cpu
re-seating the ram
different ram
cmd+opt+P+R
goat sacrifice
all caps look PERFECT, including in the psu. The board looks brand spanking new.
no visible physical defects
I figure now is a good time to take a break and ask for assistance from those that might know what they are doing.