> On Mar 4, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Valter Prahlad <valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it> > wrote: > > Il giorno 04/03/17 19.30, "Alex Ander" ha scritto: > >> I decided to give an old Performa 5300 a go. >> the built in monitor comes up and a disk with a question mark that keeps >> flashing. > That means it cannot find a bootable System. > It's either the hard disk is dead, or there's no bootable System on it.
Disk with question mark is ‘I cannot find a bootable volume’ Either dead drive, or boot sectors are messed up. Folder with a question mark is ‘I found a bootable volume, but no blessed system Folder’ If you can scrounge up one of these https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1HE0JE6610> (or just buy that one :-) you can pull the drive from the performa to check it out. Those are very hand little tools to have around to diagnose drive issues. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
