Andrew Nye3/11/02 6:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was happily playing with my beige G3 300 a few months ago and decided to > try booting it from my external firewire HD. It didn't boot, it died. I > sent it off for diagnosis and repair. Verdict: fried motherboard. Forked > out for a new one - worked fine until... I tried the same trick again, > with the same result, ie dead computer: no chimes no hd activity, nothing. > > Apart from the obvious comments on my lackof sanity, anyone know what's > happened? > Thanks > Andrew
Hello Andrew I can't see why this exercise would destroy your computer. Presumably you installed a system onto the firewire drive and then set the startup control panel to that drive, shutdown and then tried to restart. Assuming that the fw drive is not available until after the driver for the firewire card has loaded into system then the mac just sits and waits forever. If this is the case then you should be able to start up from a bootable CD by holding down the C key during startup. Good luck John -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:mac-uk@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:mac-uk-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:mac-uk-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
