Could my CPU be dead?

I've examined them all real good, but haven't seen anything yet.

I'm not sure "examine" is enough for those cables. Many found "bad" looked "good." Some tiny wire inside lets go and the cable is DRT ("dead right there') without showing anything externally.

You're probably thinking of Operation Headgap Systems. I've only bought batteries from them but they seem to have a plethora of Mac parts.

I've also heard of folks here getting cables from Cables to Go and Monster.

Do you have any hard drive cables lying about from a past HD expansion? Those should work, at least for a test.

Having lots of fun here with the G4 MDD but still have my Beige set up and networked in a spare bedroom for photos. 200GB of hard drive space holds a decent number of photos.

AJ

All you need is a cheapy for testing. I'd visit a place like Radio Shack. When I needed a special hard drive ribbon for my Beige, I found exactly what I needed at the Local RS. It that fixes the problem, you can leave it or, for peace of mind, order a premium cable on-line.

Is the new OS supposed to support the G4? I suppose so.

I can't find any sysreqs on the Leopard pages so we'll have to wait. They may be waiting to post them until they finalize all the features. Seems I saw them once somewhere but it could have been speculation, a 'no-no' around here!

Hope your G4 deal works out. My MDD came from work, too. I negotiated the purchase of all the Mac gear in my office when I retired in April. Had to leave hard drives behind but that's not a big deal. The same week I retired, Staples put WD Caviar 250GB drives on sale for $80--I bought two and both and now in the G4.

Allan, I read this thread, replaced the cable to my CD drive, and instantly resurrected an AIO G3 that had been dead and driving me batty. Thanks — I'd never known about the cable issue with these.

I was just about ready to recycle it, too — a loss averted, happily.

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I'm glad that worked out, myaka. When we first started seeing the problem in posts here, we were pulling our hair our until someone tried the cable swap in desperation. Apparently, the CD-ROM cable has a shelf life because a number of these showed up over a period of a few months. It was as if all those cables got together and decided to die at once.

AJ

Allen,

"I may finally migrate up with the one from my friend. I want to get a new iMac, but it's still not in the budget, yet."[.i]
The key to getting a G4 or better into the budget is to have your wife work on a computer. My wife wanted a home computer to keep up with her iMac at school. I kept the G3 in the basement so her basis of comparison would be the 7200 DT in the sewing room. A mini was soon followed by a few hand me down G4s from the Seattle son.
Jim