Q: Trying to put Pismo together
My scrap-assembled Pismo worked fine except it would not accept power from the plug, just from batteries. I started to take it apart to replace the sound/power board, but a screw is stuck, it turns but will not go up and down. Right now that one is in pieces in a box.
Meanwhile I got another. It would not start up, but I could tell it got power because when I put a battery in while it was plugged in, it charged. I switched out the daughtercard and RAM with the ones from the Pismo I already had, and the hard drive from it, and it started up fine. Even connected with Airport with a PC card.
I thought it was all good, but now it won't go. I have tried two different hard drives, each with its own cage and cable. Booted OK from the DVD drive, tried to install Panther, but it got stuck at "44%, 9 minutes remaining".
Now if I try to boot even from the HD with 9.2 on it, it either bongs and stays dark, or bongs, lights up, and stays with a blank light screen. What would most likely cause that?
I have booted again from Panther disk, erased the HD in it, and am now trying to install Panther again. I hope that works. I want to get it running and install the Airport card I have bought for it, and take it on a trip.
Meanwhile I got another. It would not start up, but I could tell it got power because when I put a battery in while it was plugged in, it charged. I switched out the daughtercard and RAM with the ones from the Pismo I already had, and the hard drive from it, and it started up fine. Even connected with Airport with a PC card.
I thought it was all good, but now it won't go. I have tried two different hard drives, each with its own cage and cable. Booted OK from the DVD drive, tried to install Panther, but it got stuck at "44%, 9 minutes remaining".
Now if I try to boot even from the HD with 9.2 on it, it either bongs and stays dark, or bongs, lights up, and stays with a blank light screen. What would most likely cause that?
I have booted again from Panther disk, erased the HD in it, and am now trying to install Panther again. I hope that works. I want to get it running and install the Airport card I have bought for it, and take it on a trip.
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Posted on Jun 27, 2008 9:25 PM