Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:55:39 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Cc: sigmac@case.edu Subject: Re: Half-dead G4 Message-ID: <200801182355.46285.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080102173956.GA22669@volatile.engineering.cwru.edu> References: <200712301041.36623.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <477BB7A8.6030200@gwi.net> <20080102173956.GA22669@volatile.engineering.cwru.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 02 January 2008 12:39:56 jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Joshua Coombs wrote: > > Justin Hibbits wrote: > > >I've reseated all data cables. Haven't reseated the motherboard power > > >cable, but I've reseated the hard drive power cable, and can't quite > > >figure out how to remove the CD-ROM drive power cable, as it's enclosed. > > >I've tried removing the hard drive and CD-ROM drive data cable > > > connections from the motherboard, but that didn't help. I'll try > > > pulling out everything, even the CPU, and see what I can come up with. > > > I was hoping removing the battery and resetting the PMU would do the > > > trick, but that failed as well. > > > > > >Am I right in assuming that because holding the mouse button ejects the > > >CD-ROM tray, the CPU is functioning because it has to go into > > > openfirmware? > > > > > >- Justin > > > > Pull the battery and power, and leave it unplugged with no battery for > > at LEAST 48 hours. That pesky pram is persistent. > > > > Josh C > > I can do that. I pulled out the battery again yesterday, and unplugged > everything, and won't touch it again until the weekend. > > Related, I tried some boot experiments, and it does appear to boot, or > at least attempt to boot, an OS, since with no drive installed when I > hit the power button it powers off immediately, but with a bootable disk > hooked up (CD or hard drive) it gets to the point where I need to hold > it in for 5+ seconds before it powers off. This leads me to believe > that perhaps it's switched into some sort of "Apple-only" mode, or OFW > thinks the console exists somewhere else (serial?) in which case I'm > probably boned unless I can find information on setting up a serial > console for a G4, which so far I haven't. > > But, I'll try this first. Maybe 4 days will do it. > > - Justin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks everyone for all your help with this. Turns out it was just a dead video card (I should've known by the ozone smell when I pulled it out the first time). I did discover in this that it won't boot OS X anymore (FreeBSD boots just fine though). - Justin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHkYLSqt29EJDZlM4RAl1yAJ9KoxEFgNxfXEJ/ohZA7utluIeRFwCggHOw czM3pEO7TGRHbvf5aL8IX14= =GsLw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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