On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: > No the only things I changed were the hard drive, DVD/CD super drive, more > memory, video card and an airport card... Used a 250G 7200rpm PATA hard drive > instead of the PCI card with a SATA drive... The CPU would be a processor > upgrade which I didn't do, it is still the old 466mhz, this was the next > thing but later down the road... I've been thinking about putting all the old > stuff back in and doing the hard drive last, but this doesn't make sense to > me because I basically did the same thing to my powerbook without any > trouble...
Well of all the things, the most likely to cause 'no turning on at all' would be the video card or the memory, or even more likely accidentally disconnecting some part of the power supply when doing all the aforementioned changes... Double-chceck and reset all the connections, then start rolling back parts. Slow and tedious but debugging hardware is that way. There was the time I discovered some really weird problems in my PM7600 were from *mixing* some of the RAM I had in there. That was a world-class PITA to find... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
