Power Mac g3 Blue & white no video feed

i have a g3 blue and white 350mhz, and it has no video feed it powers up and the hard disk spins up but no video feed

That 17" NEC e700 display is a late-90s CRT type with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The Apple/ATI Rage 128 in a B&W G3 can handle all of its supported resolutions. When you wrote that you had tried booting from the OS installer disk as was suggested, what bootable disk did you use? A model-specific disk from another Mac won't necessarily boot the B&W G3. Do you hear the startup tone when the computer powers ON? If so, did you try zapping the PRAM? Immediately after powering ON the computer, simultaneously press/hold down these (4) keys: Command + Option + P + R. Continue holding them down until you hear the startup tone a third time. Release the keys and see if the computer starts up normally with a display signal. Have you tried the NEC display with another computer, to verify that it works properly? If it has a detachable VGA cable, have you tried another cable? I don't know how you acquired the computer or what (if any) claims were made as to its functionality. Sometimes, computers are retired from fleet use when the time and expertise needed for troubleshooting a problem aren't available. Perhaps this B&W G3 had a bad graphics card? I bought a "condition unknown" B&W G3 (Rev. 1) once that wouldn't display a video signal when powered ON. The 9 GB Ultra SCSI hard drive was making such a high-pitched whine and was hotter than normal. I removed and disassembled the drive, and found that the read/write heads were completely worn off the ends of the arms, which badly scratched the platters. The point I'm making is that many of those computers are high-mileage units and are more likely to have a hardware problem.

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