[G4] Startup chime but no dice!

[Daile Engle]

Oops, "with 'T' depressed.... yes, I need a keyboard on the MDD....  
we're on a roll today.. 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
>
>

Jeff & (my wife)Daile Engle
Kamiah, Idaho 83536
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Recently acquired: G4 MDD Dual 1.25 (2003) with problems :-)