hello all, i'm putting together a Pismo for my daughter's Christmas present as i did for her older brother last year. as before, i decided to add a new 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, making sure of course that is is ATA-5 compliant as per Other World Computer's item description.
so... i installed it, which is easy in these 'Books as i'm sure you all know, buttoned it back up, and upon attempting to boot, was greeted not with The Chime, but rather with a single beep and a black screen. i opened it back up and made sure connectios were secure, and tried again with the same result. i subsequently tried: 1) checking the connections again (keyboard, hard drive, LCD, PRAM battery) 2) removing, and reseating the processor daughterboard, as i had inadvertantly pulled on it's tab when pulling the original hard drive out (of course, i checked it immediately, but did it again) - *this might come up again* 3) reinstalled the original hard drive (which worked fine initially) 4) reseated the processor daughterboard again, and the single 512Mb RAM chip 5) tried booting with the keyboard and hard drive(s) unconnected to see if i could at least get the ?/Boot Volume (of course, the battery and CD/DVD drive were unconnected the entire time) 6) pressing the reset button on the back, and then holding down the power button for twenty seconds 7) and finally, disconnecting the PRAM battery, power cord, battery, and CD drive, waiting 24 hours, then resetting and attempting to boot again ... each time, single note chime and black screen. my thinking is that i must have damaged the processor daughterboard when i pulled on it's tab accidentally with the heat tube assembly still screwed down, but i don't want to buy a new 500mhz processor/board only to find out it's something else... any suggestions would be much appreciated, as a 14 year-old girl's Holday (and, therefore, global peace and happiness) hangs in the balance. best regards, David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
