At 6:52 AM -0800 1/16/2009, { brad brace } 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...

Feeble chime?  The normal bong is being interrupted?  Or are you 
getting short beeps?  or ?

The self-test sound definitions are here:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/TA43884>

Simplify.  Disconnect the HD and CD and pull the memory.  Then boot - 
see what sound you get.  Then start re-adding things one at a time...

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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