On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Timo Virkkala wrote:
> > I'm trying to revive a G4 box. I pulled a hard drive and memory from a > working 400MHz Sawtooth into a 500MHz Sawtooth. > > But it won't shut down from the software. It restarts. > > I pulled items out of the admin account's Library/StartupItems/ > folder. Still does it. > > Could hard drive jumper settings do this? (I have no jumper installed > in the Western Digital drive, right now.) > > What else could cause this? > > timo v Guessing at it: Did you carefully blow the dust out of the slots in the box you're reviving? No PCI cards to cause issues? Known good agp video card? Maybe have the Maxtor jumpered to Master. I believe that is a fail safe setting? New, or tested good, PRAM battery? Does it behave booting from/shutting down from CD/DVD? USB KB and Mouse good? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
