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In any case, the machine has been replaced by a nice little mini.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_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: [email protected] >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: [email protected] >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
