Jonas Ulrich wrote: > As i noted in my original post i've done that twice. > -Jonas > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Clark Martin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Jonas Ulrich wrote: > > For use as my personal server I have a Digital Audio Powermac G4 > 533MHZ. > > 250GB, 80GB, 80GB 60GB HD's. 1.25GB Ram. Weird things are > happening. I > > was watching a movie and the screensaver started. I started the movie > > and again and it didn't do it again. Then tonight I was going to > copy a > > dvd and i went to the program and in the process of scanning the > dvd in > > the drive it froze up. So I force quit and then it wouldn't open > again. > > Then i relaunched the finder which also completely froze up. I Did a > > hard restart and when it started up i opened the program to copy the > > dvd. It opened but showed no dvd drive. then i realized that the dvd > > drive and the hard drive that share the same onboard ATA were not > there! > > I restarted again. Nothing. I have verified that the dvdrw drive > isn't > > getting power or at least i can't open it. Help would be greatly > > appreciated. I am actually going to be replacing this computer > with and > > Xserve soon. > > -Jonas > > Try doing a shutdown and start up.
You say you've restarted, I'm suggesting you shut it down, power off. There is a difference. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
