My Quicksilver G4 has suddenly developed what I can only describe as a power problem. I have it configured with three hard drives and an optical drive. Two hard drives (including boot drive) are connected to the standard hard-drive controller on the motherboard, the optical and third drive are connected to the other.
Everything has worked perfectly for quite some time. Recently, I did a bunch of drive swapping so I could troubleshoot a problematic drive for a friend. When I re-assembled "my" drives back into their original configuration, I suddenly developed this problem. Whenever I go to start up the system, one of two things happens: I either get the flashing question mark, or the system acts like it will start up, but after the grey apple disappears from the screen (just before the "Welcome to Mac OS X" screen is supposed to appear), the computer turns itself off! The boot drive has been recently run through (and repaired by) Disk Warrior. The REALLY odd thing is that when I connect my boot drive to the OTHER ATA motherboard connector (where the optical drive usually goes), the computer starts up just fine. The other thing that's different in this setup is that since the normal 4-pin power connector won't "reach" that far, I had to unplug that one and plug in the "spare" one (the unsed one that reaches to the spot on the lower front of the case). So, I'm guessing either the power supply is going bad or the primary ATA connector, unless someone has some other ideas? If it is the power supply, you think I'm okay to keep using it with the good "spare" connector, or should I just start looking for a secondhand power supply and do a replacement ASAP (if that's even the problem). -- 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
