Yeh I've got another tower heading to my mailbox it should arrive next week, i just hate the idea of what it is gonna cost me to swap the parts since some of the bits in this one will need a professional On Thursday, March 12, 2009, at 07:54AM, "Richard Klein" <richspk at gmail.com> wrote: >Umar, > I'm stumped, but it does look like you have some failing hardware >somewhere in your system. You don't have another G4 that you can try >swapping parts with, do you? > >-- >Rich > >On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com> wrote: >> Hello to anyone out there who has helped me before, I fixed my startup troubles a few days ago ("10.4.11 Killed my Mac") a couple of RAID problems and a total reboot helped. >> But now, my G4 Digital Audio just today won't open past login, it goes into a verbose type window saying something like this : >> >> (the date & my computers name) getty:/dev/console:operation not supported by device >> >> AppleRTL8961Ethernet: Phy wait for AutoNegotiation TIMEOUT >> >> xpf bootsupported: could not find mount point for hd >> >> Then it blanks out again and goes back to login and then repeats this message in verbose >> I understand that phy issues and mount point problems can be resolved but how? >> my poor baby G4 phy all the trouble? >_______________________________________________ >G4 mailing list >G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > >