[Cube] Cube won't recognize hard drive

[bill gates]

When the cube is booted from an external drive, does it recognise a CD? Does
it otherwise work ok?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM, AndrewAA <andrewaa at comcast.net> 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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