[G4] Switching internal optical drive to external case

[nagable at comcast.net]

Tell her to shut down, unplug, remove battery, press PMU button and hold for ±2 seconds (little round brownish button on logic board near battery), wait about a minute, replace battery, close computer, replace plug and try again.  It worked on a client's G4.

Nate
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From: Richard Klein <rich at richardklein.org>
> I gave my little sister a 450MHz Gigabit Ethernet a while back.  It 
> seemed fine when it was here, but it's been pretty flaky for her since 
> she got it.  She's in Georgia and I'm in Massachusetts which makes it 
> tough to fix anything for her.
> 
> The biggest problem is that it rarely recognizes any discs inserted into 
> the optical drive.  It's a Pioneer DVR111 that I bought brand new and 
> installed just before I sent the computer to her.
> 
> I saw this external case go on sale:
> http://www.dealsonic.com/plpmsicousb2.html
> I figure her disc problems are probably from a failing IDE controller on 
> the motherboard, so maybe putting the drive in a firewire case will let 
> her get some use out of it.  How will the G4 (running OS X Tiger) deal 
> with having an external optical drive, but no internal optical drive? 
> Has anyone tried this?
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Rich
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