A trick I learned. I unplugged power to my hard drives and then it booted
from the CD.
Then I reconnected power to hard drives and remounted them using Drive
setup.
Good luck.
Barry Gamble
> From: Brian Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:00:25 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SuperMacs List)
> Subject: [SM] s900
>
> Well, I spoke my woes about my s900 about 3 weeks ago (no boot, bad drive?,
> no video)
>
> And I just got it back from my companies Mac "tech". He is generally a whiz,
> and in fact bought the computer originally.
>
> It has him stumped. He says it won't boot. Not from the hard drive (which
> is good, tested on new machine) It won't boot from CD either, in fact it
> doesn't even poll the cd.
>
> In other words. I have power, and thats about it. Computer will turn on,
> whirr... and get no further.
>
> Ive pulled all the extra stuff to leave a bare box and get the same results.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
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