G4 Quicksilver will not boot
My old Quicksilver needs to be re-started, after lying idle and unplugged for a couple of years. When I press the power button, it tries to start, I hear the chime, and then after about three seconds, everything stops. Repeated attempts to start the machine sometimes produces an earlier chime, or maybe it doesn't even get that far, but it always fails to get to the boot stage. Leaving it a while and trying again will always revert to the first sequence I described.
I have replaced the PRAM battery with a new one, tried to zap the PRAM (but the machine never runs long enough for that to happen), and reset the PMU. None of these things have changed the symptoms at all.
Can anyone advise me what to try next?
John
MacPro 2.8Ghz 8-core, MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.8)