mac Performa 5500 is as dead as my best friends marrage

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My Macintosh Performa 5500 has something quite wrong with it

it bongs when it boots but nothing comes on on the screen and i have left it for about 20 mins for something to happen. dosent respond to having the os9.1 disc put in it and dosent respond to keybord commands. but as i said why i think its wierd is because it bongs like a working mac would. i think something has died on the board. any thoughts as i need this old hunk of mac if u believe it or not
 
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MBP SR 2.2Ghz 15.4" LED
My Macintosh Performa 5500 has something quite wrong with it

it bongs when it boots but nothing comes on on the screen and i have left it for about 20 mins for something to happen. dosent respond to having the os9.1 disc put in it and dosent respond to keybord commands. but as i said why i think its wierd is because it bongs like a working mac would. i think something has died on the board. any thoughts as i need this old hunk of mac if u believe it or not

Wow, I am impressed you are still using a Performa. My 5200 Performa is sitting next to my First Generation G3 Tower. The wonderful computer that came with the puck mouse.

Sorry I can't provide any help on your issue though.
 
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its not my main pc but **** i love it. i had it before i had a windows pc. when i get my mac mini which im doing the 2.16 ghz core duo upgrade and 2 gig of ram with 160 sata had im sure as **** ill never buy another windows desktop and it will always be mac
 
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If the screen remains dark, maybe it's the monitor.

How well-versed are you with 9.1? You know about booting into OS 9 while holding down the shift key (if the computer is set up to boot into 9)?
 
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well its always worked so i know how to use the mac inside os 9 well but havent tried botting from cd or some other way so no what does it do?
 
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If 9 is loaded but it won't boot from it, there may be an extension conflict. Holding down the shift key while booting into 9 turns the extensions off, so any conflict won't occur.
 
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If the screen remains dark, maybe it's the monitor.

How well-versed are you with 9.1? You know about booting into OS 9 while holding down the shift key (if the computer is set up to boot into 9)?
An anonymous member replied as a reputation remark to my post I quote above. The member's remark:
couldn't be... monitors last the longest, the ram/pram would die first.
I have had two monitors that dropped dead without warning, one of them Apple-branded, the other a ViewSonic.

I bought the Apple monitor new, together with a new G3. I still have the G3.

My G4 tower used the ViewSonic, also purchased new. I still have the G4.

There were at least 50 Macs at work, also using monitors by Apple, ViewSonic, Sony and others. Over a decade and a half, monitors died left, right and centre.

Apple had a ton of problems with e-Mac monitors. Dead pixels and worse are no strangers to Mac laptops — and iMacs, for that matter.

There is no law saying monitors must outlive any other part of any computer.
 
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I too saw monitors die sooner than any other hardware component so the one that neg repped you didn't see everything there is to see in the computer world. I didn't either, but that's one of the things I experienced at the hospital I worked a couple of years ago.
 

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