A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to
boot and instead booted from the original 2 Gig SCII drive. After
trying quite a few things to get the primary ATA66 drive to boot, or
at least found/recognized, I suggested he bring over his hard drive
to my place and plug it into my S900 ATA66 PCI card and see if it
will boot on my machine so we could copy some important files off the
drive. No luck. It would not boot from mine either. Then
disconnected his primary HD from my S900 and reconnected up my hard
drive to my ATA66 card and sadly now my S900 stopped booting at the
happy MAC face. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Reinstalling
an old internal SCII HD drive that had been working fine will not
boot either. Also, can't seem to get it to boot from CD on either of
two CD drives (Ata66 or internal SCII) drive either but that's not
too unusual. Holding down C key or trying command-option-shift-
delete never did work right and for years had been only able to boot
from a CD by using the Startup Disk Control Panel. My S900 has a
700MHz G4 upgrade card lots of RAM and a 9 month old ATI video card
so I could upgrade to O/S X but
have never made the transition. Stuck on Happy Face. Suggestions
appreciated.
Barry Gamble
--
SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml>
--> AOL users, remove "mailto:";
Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]>
To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
iPod Accessories for Less
at 1-800-iPOD.COM
Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal
www.1800ipod.com
---------------------------------------------------------------
