[Ti] Please Please help. Ti 550MHz Won't Boot... Why? Full story inside.

[Luke Mazzeri]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 02:02 PM, Michael Bigley wrote:

> have you tried unplugging the external -- all external -- devices and 
> going thru those various boot processes? My thinking is the hang is 
> coming before it is getting to any software, when the boxen is running 
> thru hardware/firmware checks. FWTDM does not, to my knowledge, do any 
> hardware checks.  BTW, I would certainly back up everything while in 
> that mode, in case this is the beginning of something more severe. I 
> guessed CD because you were doing CD activity; it could be the 
> external burner, as well, or the port that the burner is plugged in > to.

yes - all testing i have done has been w/ no peripherals .

do you know if open firmware runs from the main g4 processor?  or does 
it run from some sort of boot-managing micro controller other than the 
g4?

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