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Posted by: madmann on 2009-05-03 06:26:49
I had a bad hd and replaced it 2 weeks ago bad sectors.
now it has stopped starting up
1 it chimes
2 i get a gray screen no pin wheel
3 nothing happens.
i have tried booting off tech tools cd but no luck. same as above
this issue happened 2 times and the machine sat for some time and started up
now i get as described above
i am thinking
cpu over heat.
bad cpu
bad memory
bad mobo
would the chime eliminate any of the previous hard ware?
michael
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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-05-03 22:07:49
I'd take it back to when you replaced the hard disk - did you set master/slave on the new drive? The fact that it's chiming, booting to a grey screen suggests all is good - so I'd investigate your IDE devices to make sure the right master/slave combination is all set. Whilst you're in there, by all means reset the CPU card, RAM, graphics card - etc.
Can you get into Open Firmware at all (command + option + O + F at chime)
JB
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-05-04 08:19:23
For shits and giggles, take the hard drive out and just boot from an os x disk, see what happens.
Thats how I've figured out bad hard drives and such. Of course, a full size G4 tower is a little easier to just take hard drives in and out from.
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Posted by: madmann on 2009-05-04 19:46:26
well I know the master slave jumpers are ok. the computer worker great for several weeks after the new hd. I reformateded and installed 10.4 clean and then ran tech tools to check everything it could. I will pull the drive and try to boot from the cd.
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Posted by: Temetka on 2009-05-10 01:46:55
Cubes are fun machines. 🙂
When you put it all back together, was everything nice and tight and all cables run in their appropriate channels? Due to their compact design, things can kind of shift a bit and lose a bit of contact. The cage the gear sits in is a good design, but seems structurally weak to me.
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