Powermac 9500/132, need help.

[cyun]

I found one powermac 9500/132 system, and another mac which
I assume is of the same type, I got the keyboards for them
and the mice. Now the system that I am trying to boot have
a port for vga so I plugged my normal pc monitor in there. I
Hooked up all the peripherals to it, etc. When I boot it,
There is nothing shown on the monitor, The monitor doesnt
even activate. Some people have told me this might be due
to the weird mac bios when the harddrive doesnt have a ver
of mac os installed on it. Well, I dont have macos, but i
did get a iso of yellow dog linux 2.3 off the internet and
I burnt that on a pc. I tried booting the mac with the cd in
while holding and hitting down c, but nothing happened.
Can someone give me some pointers please.

 

[techdir577]

You may try to replace the battery on the motherboard. I have seen at least one instance on a simliar machine where once the battery was replaced and the parameter ram zapped (Command-Option-P-R keys at startup) until systems "boings" a few times and the monitor then started up

 

[dannyfixit]

Not real clear on what machine you finally did plug the monitor into. The 9500 does not have built in video capability. It needs a video card of some sort. the "other" boxes similar (8500 for example) does have built in video and a vga port. I have a 9500 with a video card in it and not had a problem. Additionally I have (2) 8500's with one of them running Yellowdog using built in video to a NEC monitor. Guess to make sure the video port on the Mac is actually functional. If you are suspect of it, install some PCI video card at least to prove the point.

The suggestion about the battery is a good one too. You can get them at Radio Shack.