When the cube is booted from an external drive, does it recognise a CD? Does it otherwise work ok?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM, AndrewAA <<a href="mailto:andrewaa@comcast.net">andrewaa@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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<br>
mark folder.<br>
When I put the hard drive in an external firewire case Diskwarrior<br>
reported problems with the boot partition.<br>
So I erased and did a fresh install of 10.4 and reinstalled the drive<br>
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<br>
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<br>
fix the problem but looking at the machine I'm thinking that the hard<br>
drive plugs into the motherboard and replacing the CPU probably<br>
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>
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