Sorry to hear that Brian. Other than considering the PRAM battery as being
dead, which can make things worse than you'd think, I have to quote Jeff W.
from a recent message he posted...
"I just wanted to add, that in general, a freeze at the grey screen is
either a SCSI chain misconfiguration, or a PCI card conflict (lower slot
issues) and a freeze at the black screen is almost always an NVRAM issue
that requires the fast PRAM zap start up to bypass."
So definitely try the PRAM zap, but it must be at just the right time. That
is, press and hold "command/option/p/r" while the startup chime is sounding.
If you have no chime, hit the zap keys immediately after you hit the power
key.
-Howie
on 7/31/01 12:00 PM, Brian Hagen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I spoke my woes about my s900 about 3 weeks ago (no boot, bad drive?,
> no video)
>
> And I just got it back from my companies Mac "tech". He is generally a whiz,
> and in fact bought the computer originally.
>
> It has him stumped. He says it won't boot. Not from the hard drive (which
> is good, tested on new machine) It won't boot from CD either, in fact it
> doesn't even poll the cd.
>
> In other words. I have power, and thats about it. Computer will turn on,
> whirr... and get no further.
>
> Ive pulled all the extra stuff to leave a bare box and get the same results.
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