Brian,

How cool. CAUTION: Be sure to read the reviews about this product (on
the right side of the page). There is the potential to do damage if you
don't read the manual - But still, a way cool product. 

Tuesday, January 8, 20089:31 AMBrian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Enclosures are pretty generic and I have no recommendations on any  
>specific one.
>Here is what I have been using.  It sure beats opening up an  
>enclosure and slapping a new drive in it everytime you need to get  
>data off of some stray drive.
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
>
>Open your quick silver and unplug and replug all of the data and  
>power cables. Remove and reseat the ram chips. Remove and reseat the  
>processor.
>Remove all of your pci cards (except video). Run a test to see if it  
>fails again. Add back any pci cards one by one.
>
>  Brian O'Neal
>
>
>
>
>
>On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
>
>Hey folks,
>
>It seems that my beloved 6 1/2 year-old dual-processor 800MHz  
>quicksilver has bitten the dust. The symptoms are:
>
>. When attempting to turn it on, the light on the power switch turns  
>on, then off, immediately.
>. When two lucky boot attempts worked, the machine would run for  
>about 5 minutes and then lock up hard.
>
>I replaced the motherboard battery, did all the PMU stuff, then did  
>the PRAM stuff during a lucky reboot, all to no avail.
>
>In any case, the machine has been replaced by a nice little mini.
>
>Question for the group:
>
>Does anyone have a recommended hard-drive enclosure for plain old IDE  
>disks? The quicksilver has once-magnificent 80GB, 160GB, and ??GB  
>(120, maybe?) IDE drives in it, and I'd like to get the data off the  
>drives and turn at least one of the drives into a portable external  
>drive. Perhaps this last idea is dumb, as cheap as drives are now,  
>but it wouldn't be bad to have something with twice the capacity of  
>an iPod, which is well over twice as big with 0.01% of the  
>functionality.
>
>Tips?
>
>Bill_______________________________________________
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