The saga continues...
After putting fresh batteries in the battery holders (fortunately I over-ordered the last time I got a batch of PRAM batteries), the computer started up all nice. It took me a little longer to get the RAM re-seated so that it didn't make a sad mac noise, and get everything else hooked back up.
Now I have a new problem: the image on the monitor is completely whacked. (I have a standard Mac RGB monitor that has always worked fine with my IIsi and other old macs.) I have a whole bunch of jittery lines and six disk images and six trash cans. I can't see well enough to manipulate anything with the mouse.
There are two nubus cards in this IIfx. One seems to be the standard video card, and that is the one that is producing the bad video image. The other I can't identify; it has a monitor-like plug, but also something that looks like a coaxial cable plug, and when I try to plug the monitor into that card, it won't produce any image on the monitor at all.
Is it possible that the video card in the computer is incompatible with my monitor? Should I try some other monitor, like a VGA? Or is there some other fix I should try first?
Thanks so much for the advice before. I'd still like to get it recapped at some point, but it doesn't seem urgent, unless caps are causing my weird video problem.
After putting fresh batteries in the battery holders (fortunately I over-ordered the last time I got a batch of PRAM batteries), the computer started up all nice. It took me a little longer to get the RAM re-seated so that it didn't make a sad mac noise, and get everything else hooked back up.
Now I have a new problem: the image on the monitor is completely whacked. (I have a standard Mac RGB monitor that has always worked fine with my IIsi and other old macs.) I have a whole bunch of jittery lines and six disk images and six trash cans. I can't see well enough to manipulate anything with the mouse.
There are two nubus cards in this IIfx. One seems to be the standard video card, and that is the one that is producing the bad video image. The other I can't identify; it has a monitor-like plug, but also something that looks like a coaxial cable plug, and when I try to plug the monitor into that card, it won't produce any image on the monitor at all.
Is it possible that the video card in the computer is incompatible with my monitor? Should I try some other monitor, like a VGA? Or is there some other fix I should try first?
Thanks so much for the advice before. I'd still like to get it recapped at some point, but it doesn't seem urgent, unless caps are causing my weird video problem.