[G4] Startup chime but no dice!

[Daile Engle]

Jay, great stuff here.. so stupid, I should've thought about firewire  
disk mode.. man!.. hey, can I FDM with only one mouse keyboard  
attached to my G5? don't have one yet for the G4... yes only one  
drive in the mdd.. Jeff
On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Jay E. Krauss Jr wrote:

> Jeff,
> 	The MDD is designed to start up in Firewire Target mode. Since  
> your G5 has Firewire, you could attempt to boot the MDD with "T"  
> depressed (presuming some message gets from the keyboard to the  
> MDD's "innards"). I'm not sure how much of the MDD's logic board,  
> RAM. etc is required to get into Firewire Target mode, but even if  
> there is no video from the MDD, the G5 (if Target mode entered)  
> would see the MDD's first (only?) hard drive. You could then  
> inspect the drive to see what was on it and (possibly) run repairs  
> with Disk Utility, DiskWarrior, TechTool, Drive Genius, etc. This,  
> of course, does not permit checking the logic board or RAM of the  
> MDD, and even if hard drive access and repairs were possible, the  
> MDD may still not boot if there is a logic board or RAM problem.
> 	Just a thought.
> Jay
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Jeff & (my wife)Daile Engle
Kamiah, Idaho 83536
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PowerMac G5 1.8 Single (wefixmacs build) 3 gb ram,(1) 160gbhd, (1)  
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Recently acquired: G4 MDD Dual 1.25 (2003) with problems :-)