on 06/08/05 13:19, Jan Georgen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I posted much of the following to the Apple PowerBook Usage > discussion, am also > trying here in search of much needed help! > > I replaced the sound/ac card and the power switch in a 400mHz Pismo. > The computer chimes and I can get the screen to light up with both AC > and//or a battery (the battery also charges). The internal hard drive > will not, however, spin up. > > So I pulled the hard drive out of my 500mHz Pismo, 1 gig RAM (drive > previously known to work) and tried to boot from it, same result. I > then pulled the internal hard drive out and inserted my expansion bay > hard drive (Yes! I have one of those great old rarities that > currently houses a 60gig 5400rpm drive!) and the computer booted. > > This morning I returned my hard drive to my Pismo and got the same > results as with the 400mHz Pismo: no spinning, only the grey screen. > If I try to boot into target mode, my computer shuts down. Also, as > long as the internal drive is connected, my expansion bay drives > (hard drive + CD-ROM) do nothing. I ran Disk Utility on the drive > (after placing it in an external case and mounting it to my Sawtooth) > and got the 'okay' but when I tried Disk Warrior, I was informed that > the directory was way too messed up to fix. The drive does, however, > mount when in the external case and I was able to copy all of my > documents etc. to another drive (whew!!!!). > > I am stumped. Could there be something with the sound/ac card that > provides power to everything else, but not the internal hard drive? > Can the internal ATA somehow short and screw up the hard drive > ribbon? Or might I have missed a wire/connection?? > Or???? > > Any ideas will be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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