Hi,
I'm new to the list but have had years of trouble-free service from my PowerCenter Pro 210. I've come up with a problem that I've never seen before and I thought maybe someone could shed some light on it - soluble or not!
The problem became apparent when I took the machine down after it had been switched on and running perfectly for about two years (as a server). I'd had a G3 upgrade in it that I wanted to try in another machine (it works), and when I put it all back together again it wouldn't boot from the Adaptec SCSI card that it came with.
Not a problem, I thought, I'd just boot from something else and reset the startup disk. However, I've never been able to get it to boot again, although the startup chime is good. Furthermore, it will let me get into Open Firmware (via the serial port), but which I can't then boot using any kind of media - HD, CD, floppy. There can't be very much wrong!
I don't understand how I can get this far but not all the way. Could it be that my ROMs are blown or something like that? Does anyone know what the machine needs to boot fully that isn't necessary for OF, and hence what could be broken?
I've tried all the usual things - removing extraneous peripherals and RAM, battery, CUDA, PRAM and so on. It just seems to me that during those two years something may have duffed out that is needed for the boot process to run, but I don't know what to try. ROM replacement? Mobo from eBay? I don't want to abandon the machine as it so nearly seems to work!
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S., I previously posted to the PCI PowerMacs list but no-one there was able to offer anything that I hadn't already tried. Sorry if you've read the message before!
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