Thanks Bruce, it was the video card swapped in the old one and will download the OS to the new HD and then download the disc that came with the video card then put the new one back in and hope it will boot up then... Very cool!!! Thanks again!!!
-----Original Message----- >From: Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> >Sent: Sep 7, 2010 7:58 PM >To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades??? > > >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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we are going... -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
