Hi Bob,
I have the 4160MT. Without the IDE, I got power, but just a black
screen; didn't get too far. Again, this thread is dead.
However, after I got everything running, then I disconnected the IDE
drive as you did and yes then everything started up. So it is some sort
of Starmax Tanzania voodoo with a low battery combined with no IDE drive
or ......?
What model of Starmax do you have?
Bill
bob wrote:
>
> The Barbers wrote:
> >
> > Murray,
> >
> > Not to resurrect a dead thread, but: when my Starmax received a new
> > battery and still wouldn't start because there was no IDE drive
> > attached, I put in just such an IDE hard drive. The computer started
> > right up from the Starmax CD. The drive was from a PC, Windows and all.
> > When the computer sequence reached the process of displaying the
> > desktop, it automatically "rebuilt the desktop" on the PC drive. (I
> > believe that I briefly saw a message about PC Exchange or something
> > similar.) After a very, very long time it finished and the drive was
> > there with all the files displayed.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Bill
>
> Wow! Is the Mac that versatile? Just as a point of clarification, when
> you say didn't start up, did you mean no screen with an icon? I started
> my max with no IDE drive or CD the first time after a new battery and it
> went up to the blinking ?.
>
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