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Sep 24, 2015 10:25 AM in response to Foxy754by BDAqua,Very good question, I guess pulling the drive for a test might be in order.
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Sep 24, 2015 12:10 PM in response to BDAquaby Foxy754,The drive is fine When I worked on the iMac and got it to the new OS with the right disc, I put the old one back in and wiped it, then installed a clean copy of 10.4 on it from that disc. I'm assuming the only reason it wouldn't like it, is because of the fact that it was installed on an iMac. Any ideas? Thanks! You have been a lot of help!
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Sep 24, 2015 1:13 PM in response to Foxy754by BDAqua,Hmmmm, this iMac was a G4, correct?
With the eMac in FWTDM, z key at bootup, with FW cable connecting them, hold alt key on iMac, see if it can boot from the drive in the eMac that appears as a FW drive.
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Sep 25, 2015 7:46 AM in response to BDAquaby Foxy754,Okay. I'm repeating to make sure I understand. I plug a firewire to both of them, and then I try to boot the eMac of of the iMac?
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Sep 26, 2015 10:56 AM in response to Foxy754by BDAqua,Yes, that will be our first test.
We want the eMac to be a FW drive, & boot the iMac from the eMac's drive.
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Oct 2, 2015 8:17 PM in response to BDAquaby Foxy754,Okay. I went into replace the drive because I am waiting for my local store to get a firewire in. When I went in, I found that I forgot to plug in the PSU cable into the hard drive. I did that and I put the eMac back together. Now it is beeping at me 3 times. Which you said earlier means no good banks. What does this mean?
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Oct 2, 2015 8:32 PM in response to Foxy754by Foxy754,I replaced the ram cards and found that my lower bank is defective. I doubt there is a way to fix this. Now it is back to blinking 4 times. I will wipe the hard drive and see if that helps.
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Oct 2, 2015 9:31 PM in response to Foxy754by BDAqua,It may not work n an eMac, but...
If you're sure the RAM is good, try the Hair Dryer trick...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15613068#15613068
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3270112
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16053892#16053892
No power light at all...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3692775?tstart=0
It can show on any G5, and even many other computers & electronic devices of the period.
http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/pmg5.html
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/power-macintosh-g5.html
And see this last one in particular...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16781690#16781690
Heat gun better...