From: Will Schou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:31:37 PM US/Pacific To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:
> From: "Eric J. Leopold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:19:14 -0700 > > I have 2 S900s but one is kaput. It has a Sonnet G4 400, 1 GB ram and > a 40 GB IBM HD, partitioned to 8, 10, 10, 10 GB each. I had system 9.1 > in the 10 GB partitions. It died suddenly. Previous to its death, I > had examined the system with Nortons 6, Disk warrior and TTP 3.0.4 and > corrected all problems. I pronounced the system as healthy. I was > prepping this machine for another attempt at OS X when I saw Lyle > Anderson's post "[SM] Quiver in my back bone" where he was able to > install X from his Jaguar disks on an S900 without any other of the > usual necessary preps. Thinking well that sounded too good to be true, > but I tried to boot from the Jaguar install disk. Nothing. The CD > light flickered a little and death followed. > > Now there is the start up chime but nothing follows. No video. I > zapped with the CUDA, tested the battery, This sounds like classic"OSX Black screen of Death" The cure is to remove the battery and in plug the machine for a min of 10 min or a bit longer to be safe. Push the Cuda for 30 sec or so put the battery back in and plug in and a quick cuda push and away you go. You mentioned testing the battery which likely means you removed it but no mention of unpluging the machine which is the key thing people often miss. It sounds like you may have tried to boot to the OSX CD without using XPfacto...a big no no. Hope this helps you. Will S -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
