On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Mystic Prowler wrote: > 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.
I had it happen on an iBook G4. The data on the HD was corrupt. After some testing it definitely appeared that the HD IDE interface was munged. I got a replacement machine and swapped the motherboards. I use the replacement machine (now with the bad IDE) with a FW drive as a spare computer. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
