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Hi there I'm looking for suggestions to determine whether my G4 Quicksilver is really dead. Here's brief config. G4 867PPC 1.5 gbram 40 & 60 gb drives, OSX10.4.6, old superdrive and Epson inkjet printer.
Last night it presented me with a blank white screen on boot. I pushed in the reset button and at the screen prompt typed "mac-boot". What I got was a OS-9 like folder with a flashing ? on it. Guess it was trying to tell me it couldn't find a disk to boot from.
Managed to get the Superdrive tray to eject, inserted the OS-X install disk and booted from it. Neither the Disk Utility nor the installation script found any disks to boot from. I have two disks installed and both were spinning (I can hear them).
I think my disk controller is Kaput! and it's on the motherboard I believe. This system is 7 years old, doesn't owe me a dime but I won't spend a dime on it either. Suggestions/opinions on how to confirm it's death are most welcome before I scavenge the hard disks, maybe the superdrive and a recently added USB2.0 card to use with a new intelMac (Macmini or iMac?-another post).
Thanks
bruce
Last night it presented me with a blank white screen on boot. I pushed in the reset button and at the screen prompt typed "mac-boot". What I got was a OS-9 like folder with a flashing ? on it. Guess it was trying to tell me it couldn't find a disk to boot from.
Managed to get the Superdrive tray to eject, inserted the OS-X install disk and booted from it. Neither the Disk Utility nor the installation script found any disks to boot from. I have two disks installed and both were spinning (I can hear them).
I think my disk controller is Kaput! and it's on the motherboard I believe. This system is 7 years old, doesn't owe me a dime but I won't spend a dime on it either. Suggestions/opinions on how to confirm it's death are most welcome before I scavenge the hard disks, maybe the superdrive and a recently added USB2.0 card to use with a new intelMac (Macmini or iMac?-another post).
Thanks
bruce