This happened to me just the other day on my DP500MHZ. I unplugged it and
plugged it back in and it worked.-Jonas

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Aaron wrote:
>
> > My FireWire 800 MDD chimes once when I try to start it, and
> > generally powers up, but does nothing else. The monitor stays black,
> > the little light on the monitor stays amber, and, if I hold down
> > command-option-P-R or command-option-O-F, nothing happens either.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what might be wrong? Power supply?
>
> These symptoms are identical to my G5 when the power supply blew.
> Luckily for me, this was a known defect of certain G5's and covered by
> Apple under a special extended warranty, otherwise it would have been
> an $800+ repair. I found a pinout for the power supply and used a
> multimeter to test the lines. In my case, about half were dead. I'd
> bet a MDD power supply is really expensive if that's the case, you
> might want to see about adapting a PC power supply?
>
> You can find some good info about testing the MDD power supply and a
> pinout diagram, etc. here:
> <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1117298>
>
> >
>

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