<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Have you reset the CUDA or zapped the PRAM? These steps could just help and the CUDA bit is advised when doing some hardware changes anyway.<div><br></div><div>Have a look at this link re the CUDA:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58780">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58780</a></div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div><html>On 26 Mar 2008, at 04:07, AndrewAA wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello All<br>I've got a stock cube 450 that has stopped working.<br>It wouldn't start from the hard drive or , just shows the question mark folder.<br>When I put the hard drive in an external firewire case Diskwarrior reported problems with the boot partition.<br>So I erased and did a fresh install of 10.4 and reinstalled the drive but it still wouldn't boot.<br>However it will boot with the same drive in an external firewire case.<br>The same drive will also boot up in my other cube.<br>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.<br>Trying to boot to a CD produces the same effect.<br>I'm thinking the IDE controller is fried.<br>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.<br><br>Any thoughts?<br>Anyone got a spare motherboard?<br>Anyone interested in a cube project?<br><br>Andrew in Ann Arbor<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Cube mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>