On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Could this be the reason the G3 will not load from cd or hd
as it HAS BEEN set to only load form firewire?
No. When a system doesn't boot properly from any device there's only
a few things that can be a problem:
The bus (or busses) in question have cabling or setting problems. For
SCSI this is ID and termination issues, usually. For IDE busses this
is master/slave settings.
Some beige G3's do not like having a single device on an IDE bus and
have it jumpered to master (this may only pertain to certain drives)
I know our G3MT in the office here would not boot until I pulled the
master/slave jumper from the hdd entirely.
Cabling issues. Cables can be not set in all the way, or jammed on
wrong. I've seen connector pins on HDD's bent sideways and broken by
overzealous cable insertion. Some drives have enough room around the
pins that you can plug it in shifted one set of pins over.
Cables can be cut, can short against case parts or just break off.
PRAM is hosed. The surefire cure for this is to pull the PRAM
battery, let the system sit overnight. press and hold the CUDA switch
for 30 seconds, re-insert the battery, press the CUDA switch once,
and try booting.
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