My comments and advise:
On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:
>
> [sarcasm] you remembered to plug it back in... right? [/sarcasm]
> try booting it with just the cd drive (probably a SCSI ID problem) and
SCSI ID's can be a pain; HD's are usually set to either 0 or 1. I
believe ID 7 is reserved for the SCSI controller. You should probably
make sure that the CD is on ID 2, or something.
> see what happens ( make sure that there is a bootable disk in there)
> If it boots off that, try to boot it into the CD with the hdd in too
> (and then use disk utility to see if the drive has crashed)
> I have done some boneheaded stuff with my old 6100 (running 2 hdds
> together, then unplugging one and attaching the cd whilst it running)
> and i've never had that problem before (albeit my 6100 was a beast of
> a mac, i dropped it down the stairs and it still booted just fine)
Owch. That's crazy. I'm not trying this with my 6100... :)
>>> Well I had a modern PC moment a few minutes ago, with my old Mac.
>>> I had a
>>> few months of good computing, having bought a used hard drive and a
>>> floppy
>>> drive. They worked fantastically well too until just a half hour
>>> ago I
>>> put
>>> in a CD drive. Fit perfectly. Connected perfectly but it didn't
>>> work.
Was it known to be working? What exactly didn't work about it?
(Wouldn't open/close, didn't read CD's... etc.)
>>> Well
>>> I
>>> tried a few other things and seemed to forget what I was doing and I
>>> unplugged the disk drive and deluged it . . . with the comp still
>>> running.
Try booting it with just the HD plugged in, if you haven't already.
>>> Oh woe is me. Anyway it wont start up again, just shows a disk
>>> with a
>>> question mark in it. What do I do.
In case you don't know; the flashing question mark just means the
computer can't find a startup system. (There can be many reasons for
this, doesn't necessarily mean anything broke.)
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