[G4] Problems powering up?

[Wayne Wilkin]

Just a stupid thought!
Sometime when I have computer doing this I just shut-down and unplug  
the power cable for 5-10 minutes and then try it, there have been  
numerous times that this has worked, just a thought, Wayne.

On Jun 12, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Brad Russell wrote:

> First I should thank everyone who responded to my question about  
> hard drive cache and size of the drive.  I decided for now to just  
> format the 160 at 128 and have it be the primary drive.
>
> Since I've added the new drive I have had trouble getting the  
> computer to power up all the way.  I get a start up chime but then  
> it just sits there -- no mouse, no video, etc.  After some  
> searching I guessed that the battery was going.  So I replaced that  
> and the computer started right up.  Since then it has locked once  
> and not started up without reseting the PMU and any time that I  
> have tried to use the scheduled start up I have the same problem.   
> If I reset the PMU and wait a few minutes it seems to start fine.   
> Before adding the hard drive it never gave us any issues.  Anybody  
> have any suggestions?  I should also note that it is a DP450 with  
> 2gb ram running the latest version of Tiger.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brad
>
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