Hello, I have an iMac G4 800 that I just recently received, and the previous owner said that it won't detect any internal drives. I thought that it was a bad logic board at first, but successfully booting off of my G4 sawtooth in TDM mode proved me wrong. Currently, I have the machine running off of an external maxtor 300GB One Touch hard drive through firewire with Mac OS X Leopard carbon copy cloned into it from my G4 sawtooth. The machine runs fine, I just need to know that if there is any way to solve this problem before I dismiss it as "case closed". I tried different drives, different IDE cables, and different dvd drives. nothing. Whenever I have any internal drives plugged in, the machine automatically shuts off when entering TDM mode, it takes an extra 10 seconds to show up the question mark-folder icon, and whenever i tried booting off of an internal drive, the Apple logo popped up, and then the grey wheel, but after 3-10 minutes, it stops and freezes. No multi-language message telling me to restart, or an Kps. Just a freeze. Now when I removed the internal drives and started off of my firewire drive, everything went well. Is there anything going on here? My iMac seems to hate internal drives, but whenever I remove the internal drives and startup from the external, the system acts normally.
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