One thing to look at, check and make sure your cable didn't come lose. I
know it is always the easy things that mess up. Also you said you put in
a new drive, was it scsi or ata/ide? Did you change the jumper on the
master drive? One of the reason why I hated to work on peecee's IDE can
be a pain.
Bruce
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 04:22 PM, Gene Osburn wrote:
> HELP!
>
> I've been running it as a 466 MHz G4 (66 MHz bus @ 7x bus ratio) for
> quite some time with no probs. I'd replaced the SCSI internal Zip
> drive with a Seagate HDD, to complement the 40 GB Maxtor UltraATA/100.
> I removed the Seagate drive and reinstalled the Zip drive, and now I
> can't get the AIO to startup no matter what I do.
>
> After the startup chime, the flashing question mark floppy symbol
> appears, even though nothing about the configuration has changed. The
> same hard drive as before - with the same *VALID* System Folder (OS
> 9.2) - isn't "seen" at all. No response to the four-finger salute, so
> I can't zap the PRAM. The CD-ROM drive won't open, so I can't attempt
> to boot from a CD. I've checked and rechecked all drive and power
> connections; disconnected the SCSI cable and tried to restart using
> only the IDE drives; disconnected the IDE cables and tried to restart
> using a backup SCSI drive; reset the CUDA numerous times; changed the
> PRAM battery; ETC...nothing works!
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