Hi guys!

Good and bad news!

I've soldered 3 aa batteries together (made 4.68V) and reassembled the 4400. Well, no professional quality soldering, but it seems to work.

Bad news: Still no graphics...

Good: Just like before, I can hear the chime and the HD spinning (CR-CRRRR-CRR). You know what I mean. ^^

I've always shut it down via forced shutdown (not really possible to do it properly, of course).

BUT today, after the new PRAM-battery, I heard a "beep"! Then, I hit the power button on the keyboard and it beeped again! Then, I hit enter, and it shut down!

I've booted an iMac G3 with OS 8.6 and done the same.

Now, I think it booted, at least. (I had never heard any beep before, I think.)

Now:

If it really booted, is it sure that the RAM works like it should? And the VRAM?

I think next I'll get a 10-switch adapter like most of you seem to have. I'm not really confident in my 6-switch adapter...

(Well, a guy 2 minutes from where I live has lots of old macs, but well hidden and I guess it would take too long to find an old and working Apple-CRT.)

If the adapter won't solve it, I'll contact you again, ArmorAlley! :–)

Thanks!

Nicolas