Hey Ben, I think your situation is fairly cut and dried.
Failure to boot could simply be a corrupt system (or no system). But booting from a CD and not even seeing the hard drive is a different issue. And booting from a CD that has a drive utility that you can run to scan for all drives on a given bus will further reinforce the fact that you have had a drive failure should nothing turn up. Even the Apple System Profiler should show you the presence of your hard disk. Dead PRAM batteries manifest a different set of problems. Have your drive replaced. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 128 Breckenridge Lane Louisville, KY 40207 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On May 31, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: > Do I understand properly from earlier suggestions that my 450 mhz > G3's inability to start up from its hard drive--and the hard > drive's not showing up on disk utility and other software I start > up from--may be the result of a failing CMOSS battery (not sure of > the spelling). If that's the case, are such batteries fairly easy > to replace in G3's? Mine is the graphite G3. Please let me know > what you can--Ben Zion Hershberg > > >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050531/145d2125/attachment.html
