[muglo] G4 Tower and PMU chip reset

A couple of days ago, I told the MUGLO list about my problems with my 
G4 tower failing at boot up.  Alan Pomfret suggested offlist that I 
reset my PMU chip on the logic board.  Instructions for how to do 
this are in Apple article ID 95037.  I am happy to say this 
suggestion appears to have worked, and I thought I'd pass this 
information on to anyone else who has a G4 tower.

Thanks, Alan.

Leith

At 1:20 AM -0400 8/7/07, Leith Peterson wrote:
>I'm having strange problems again with my G4 AGP Graphics tower,
>running 10.3.9.  You may remember it was failing at boot up, right
>after it chimed.  I zapped the pram, as suggested, and that helped
>for awhile, but then the problem happened again.
>
>I took it in for repair.  They ran some diagnostics, and couldn't
>find anything wrong, except they thought the battery might be
>failing, and it was replaced.  It was fine again for awhile, but now
>the problem is occurring once more.  This time there's a new twist.
>
>When I try to zap the pram, it doesn't zap.  In other words, I don't
>hear the chime, and I get a message as it goes to File Vault "safe
>boot."  There is no sound, and I can't adjust the sound either.  The
>sound options are dimmed.  I couldn't find any information on "safe
>boot."  However, I can enter my password as usual in File Vault.  I
>haven't tried messing around with any of the other System
>Preferences, as I thought I'd get your opinion before I proceed much
>farther, fearing it might fail altogether at any moment.
>
>Please advise.  Thanks,
>
>Leith
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