Lawrence David Eden wrote: > Greetings, > > 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.) Thankfully, it did > finally boot, but I am really rattled. I am afraid to turn the CPU > off for fear that it won't come back when I need it. > I zapped the PRAM, and did a deep reset with COMMAND OPTION O F. > The B&W would not boot from a CD or my external Firewire drive. Why > not? My boot drive is a new Seagate 80 GB, the second drive is a > Quantum Fireball...(a little older.) > > My first guess is the power supply, but, like I said, it is just a > guess. Clearly, the old B&W has issues, so I am writing to my fellow > enthusiasts in this Group for further diagnosis. > > B&W with Sonnet upgrade to 500mhz G4. Internal ZIP, CD, 896 MB RAM. > > > > 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? > > > Larry Eden > > how old is pram battery?
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