you don't have to head over there if you don't want to, just google
jumper settings on your brand of hard drive, you should get a hit on a
PDF at least. then you can use tweezers to pull off the jumper pin and
reseat it in the proper alignment, if it needs to be set differently
Steve
On Aug 22, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
I haven't even thought of a bad RAM stick being the problem! As for
the base, I'm pretty shure I'm putting the base together correctly
(I'll admit that I have no idea what Apple was thinking when they
designed the guts of the computer). I have checked the heatsink and I
think it's on as good as it will ever be. I'm taking the HDD to
Compusa to get the jumpers changed.
coloradodreaming wrote:
I have a 1.25 17" that I have worked on quite often. I know that it
can be a tricky situation to re-seat the base onto the bottom...are
you sure the pins are aligned with the ports correctly? you can also
check to see if there is any cabling that was caught when
reassembling
and has been frayed or pinched. Also keep in mind that the heatsink
will need to have good contact to prevent any issues. When installing
the HHDs have you double-checked the connections between the drive
and
the HHD? one last point that comes to mind is the fact you may have a
bad stick of ram...seems like an unrelated issue but I have had bad
sticks give me all manner of issues. Oh, that reminds me of one more
thing ... I had a bad Airport card screw up downloads before too,
weird stuff
Steve
On Aug 22, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Jason Trunzo wrote:
Thats unusual all right. The real deal here is that we've got to
get the iMac to boot from somewhere so we can diagnose the drive.
Do you have another working PowerPC mac with firewire in your
house? You can put that mac in target disc mode and then use it as a
boot drive. Alternately, you can put the iMac in target disc mode
and connect it to a working mac to run disk utility and attempt to
diagnose the problem.
On Aug 22, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
I have tried that before. Unfouruntely the iMac freezes in the
middle
of the boot but only when I'm using the bad HDD even though I'm
booting it off a CD. It freezes when it shows a happy Mac or when
the
grey apple comes up.
Jason Trunzo wrote:
The reason we want you to do this is two fold. First to see the mac
thru a successful bootup. Second so you can run disc utility on
your
drive from the installer cd to attempt to repair the drive. Or
simply
reinstall the os.
DON'T PANIC!
Sent from my Electronic Thumb
On Aug 21, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Gary Fortman <[email protected]> wrote:
Hard drives have configurations for slave or master depending on
if
they are the boot drive or a secondary drive.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Alex Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
What's that?
Tom Venney wrote:
Is the HD set for Cable Select?
On Aug 21, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Alex Barnes wrote:
It won't it just freezes in the middle of the boot and that's
when I
using the bad HDD when I'm using the good ones it won't get
past
the
folder with a question mark.
Jack Suggs wrote:
Will it boot with an OS installer CD in the drive?
Hold down the C key to start from a bootable disc (DVD, CD)
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Alex Barnes <[email protected]
>
wrote:
I am reposting this because the old post I made got
sidetracked
and I
could not get an answer.
I have an iMac G4 that will not boot past the folder with a
question
mark. I have tried this using 3 different HDDs and the only
one
that I
can get to boot any farther is a bad HDD (it's also the only
HDD
that
any of my computers will recognize). I have tried booting the
computer
using Mac OS 9, 10.1, 10.2, and Debian Linux. All stop in the
middle
of the boot.
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