Recently got a 733MHz Quicksilver, which initially was unwilling to boot at all, although I had seen it working, when I bought it. After fitting new PRAM battery and CUDA update, it would initially start to boot and then turn off. It gradually started getting further along until it would boot into OSX and then turn off immediately.. Eventually I had it running with no problems, did all software updates and it ran happily for a couple of days. I then turned it off and came back to it after another couple of days, and again it wouldn't start, although after about twenty tries it booted all the way and ran fine. It now seems fine , starts first time and runs with no problems. ( running 10.4.11 with 768MB memory BTW) . I have added a USB2 card and a SCSI card both of which it recognised immediately, and replaced the optical drive with a DVD burner which works OK. However if I try starting it in Target Disk Mode it immediately turns off!. I have tried doing this from system preferences, and by pressing "T" when starting, with the same result. The firewire bus seems fine: I have surfed with it by sharing my connection with my G4 iMac over a FW lead with no problems and also used an external FW DVD drive, before I changed the optical. Does this G4 support TDM? IIRC some of the G3 powermacs didn't?
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