If you have access to an external firewire hard drive case, put the new hard 
drive in their and try starting up from the external firewire.
 
On Friday, January 16, 2009, at 09:52AM, "{ brad brace }" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>
>
>Before I give up on this G4 Pismo, does anyone have any
>ideas...? I get only a partial, feeble chime when booting-up
>then the drive continues to spin but the screen is dark.
>I put a new drive in but that didn't help, and the CD drive
>is inaccessible...
>
>tia /:b
>
>
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