On 3/2/10 12:55, "Norm Rowe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
Notwithstanding the spec of your mac and the HD's I have experienced this
'type' of problem when running multi boot systems in G4 Sawtooth and QS
models - especially when drives larger than 128GB were installed. Have you
got all three HDs installed or are the problems there with just a single
drive?
Pete
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