Listers,
My daughter's PM 4400 has "died": on startup all we get is a grey screen with no keyboard or mouse response. No OS startup screen (we have 9.1 installed).
Of course, the first thing I did was replace the battery. No change. I had purchased several, so a put in another battery, just in case the first one was DOA. No change. Pressed the CUDA button, both with the machine off and on. I get a chime, but still the grey display. There is some initial activity out of the hard drive, but that soon ends.
Do you get the happy Mac or does it freeze before that? Has anything recently been changed in the machine? If so, restore it to the previous configuration and try from there. I'd also try booting from an OS CD by holding "c". If it does boot run Drive First Aid on the HD and see what it says. If it doesn't boot from CD, remove the RAM and try booting from one stick at a time.
Often freezing on the grey screen is because of SCSI issues, but doesn't the 4400 use IDE drives?
-RPM
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