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.
Jan Georgen
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