From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 14:36:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216DE16A417 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EB913C442 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id XqGi1Y0070mv7h00501D00; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:36:51 +0000 Received: from earth.knownspace ([69.255.34.108]) by OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Xqco1Y0012KzDb13X00000; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:36:48 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=s4xKUwQfq5LbvNtNFoEA:9 a=hKU96ysmnLqnEgFY9N1HBPkG-jQA:4 a=50e4U0PicR4A:10 a=FZ8qjatflj_lygEPI5QA:9 a=TuP93-fmAK3v-c_MFyyI27jhYfcA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Resent-From: Justin Hibbits Resent-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:36:50 -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <200801010936.50132.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> From: Justin Hibbits To: sigmac-talc@acm.cwru.edu Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:41:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1779968.7fjfSsNiRU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712301041.36623.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Cc: Subject: Half-dead G4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:36:53 -0000 --nextPart1779968.7fjfSsNiRU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi folks, Maybe someone could help me with this problem: I recently purchased a 1.25= GHz=20 PowerMac G4 on eBay, and it worked perfectly fine. However, after loading= =20 =46reeBSD on it, and running it for a couple weeks, it no longer boots. =20 HOWEVER, I can still hold down the mouse button and the CD ejects, so I'm=20 assuming it must be reaching some part of OpenFirmware, it just doesn't POS= T=20 (I don't hear the chime). I've tried ripping out a couple RAM sticks,=20 reseating the video card, resetting the PMU, and one time I did manage to g= et=20 the chime, without the video card in there, but even pulling the card out=20 again I still don't get the chime now. Is there any other test I can perfo= rm=20 to narrow down the cause, and fix this problem? Thanks, Justin --nextPart1779968.7fjfSsNiRU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHd7wwqt29EJDZlM4RAgDhAJ4orGv4UcMG0gGMNkzgCnSJJSQJnQCePTEo c5bENRdt8FbKVALp4vXFTxs= =t2xK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1779968.7fjfSsNiRU--