On Jul 25, 7:35 am, Lawrence David Eden <[email protected]> wrote: > My B&W has been having difficulty starting up these days. This has > been going on for a couple of weeks, but today, it was particularly > bad. It took me dozens of try to finally get the HDs to spin up and > boot. (I have 2 internal HDs in the B&W.) > My first guess is the power supply, but, like I said, it is just a > guess. You might try unplugging the older hard drive and starting up, then unplugging the newer one and staring from the older. It may be one of the hard drives. They draw the most power when they are spinning up. If the power supply is weak spinning up 2 drives might be straining it. It is very easy to replace a B&W power supply with a pc power supply, all it takes is a very easy wiring splice (I have a 450 W pc power supply running a B&W). It sounds like you have a pretty nice B&W and a new pc power supply would only cost around $25. If you'd rather stick with the Apple OEM power supply contact me off list and I will see if I can find one of my spares.
> Next question: if I decide to replace the B&W, I want my new Mac to > use my existing hard drives....what model Mac would you all suggest? Any G4 could use them as data drives but they probably won't boot; you usually need to reinstall the OS to make a G3 drive bootable on a G4. The Mac installer recognizes your machine and optimizes the installation to fit it. If you were to get a G4 the easiest path is to copy your data and apps to the G4's drive, then wipe your G3 drive and use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable copy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
