On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
> > Another long shot would be a bad keyboard perhaps? (or USB problems) > Booting into Open Firmware should NEVER be taken as a good sign or something to be just gotten around. Try unplugging the SATA drive and see if it boots normally into the 80 gig drive. If it still goes to OF, remove the SATA card and see what happens. If it still boots onto OF after that, unplug every device but the keyboard mouse and monitor, if it STILL boots into OF try a known good keyboard and mouse. At that point if it still boots into OF, remove the PRAM battery, press the cuda switch and leave it for a half hour or so. Press the cuda switch once again and put the PRAM battery back in. now with just the keyboard/mouse/monitor attached try booting.it should go to the flashing question mark..if it does, start adding the devices in one at a time. If it STILL boots into OF at that point, get a new motherboard, and hope what took it out didn't take down your video and SATA card as well... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
