[Cube] Cube won't recognize hard drive

[Steven Southerden-Dive]

Have you reset the CUDA or zapped the PRAM? These steps could just  
help and the CUDA bit is advised when doing some hardware changes  
anyway.

Have a look at this link re the CUDA:	http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58780

Steve

On 26 Mar 2008, at 04:07, AndrewAA wrote:

> Hello  All
> I've got a stock cube 450 that has stopped working.
> It wouldn't start from the hard drive or ,  just shows the question  
> mark folder.
> When I put the hard drive in an external firewire case Diskwarrior  
> reported problems with the boot partition.
> So I erased and did a fresh install of 10.4 and reinstalled the  
> drive but it still wouldn't boot.
> However it will boot with the same drive in an external firewire case.
> The same drive will also boot up in my other cube.
> The cube won't boot into target disk mode, I hear the hard drive  
> spin up, the screen flickers then the power switch light switches off.
> Trying to boot to a CD produces the same effect.
> I'm thinking the IDE controller is fried.
> I had a momentary inspiration to upgrade the CPU hoping that would  
> fix the problem but looking at the machine I'm thinking that the  
> hard drive plugs into the motherboard and replacing the CPU probably  
> wouldn't replace the IDE controller.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Anyone got a spare motherboard?
> Anyone interested in a cube project?
>
> Andrew in Ann Arbor
>
>
>
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