Been here before and thanks for the help but my problem continues. First
I can not afford a new intel mac or evan a good used ppc mac. My screen
is now OK with a addition of new ATI 9800 Mac Pro video card. Now the
power button still does nothing, the restart button does. Took out the
switch and there is nothing you can clean. Tried pushing just the the
switch, no luck. I have bought a new mother board on eBay and that does
the same thing as the original board with the addition on not being able
to connect to the internet. Put the old board back in and am now
connected. Other problems. On restart the Mac still sometimes goes into
open firmware and must type mac-boot. Eventually after several tries it
will boot up. Apple jack reports "{ 41 918440 } UniNEtnet :: restart"
over and over in pink letters after doing it's thing. Push return and
then enter "exit or re-boot" to get going again. I have 3 hard drives
which I have erased and installed new copies of OS 10.5.8 on each. I
bought a Western Digital Passport drive less than a year ago and it was
working fine until I switched from Time Machine to Carbon Copy Cloner.
Now it will not mount. In disk utilities it shows up but will not erase.
" No argument" is the error and the same when I try to partition it. I
bought it at the Apple store and I am taking it back there to-day. The
same thing happens with the new and old main boards. Does anyone have
any ideas on how to fix this. The video board and the external drive had
problems after the swap to CCC. I love my mac and want to have it
working. Where other than the main board does the mac store information
that is causing my problems?
Norm
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