Next?... ok, now that I've come to the conclusion that it's the logic board, where to find one? and which one? I'd like the 166mhz system bus and 2 mb level 3 cache... (as close to the original specs as possible) is there a number on the board that's in it now that I can give to identify the exact board I need? Jeff On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Jay E. Krauss Jr wrote: > Jeff, > You only need the keyboard attached to the MDD while actually > booting, so you could disconnect your keyboard from the G5, attach > it to the MDD, boot the MDD into Firewire Target, then disconnect > the keyboard from the MDD and reattach to the G5. Since you don't > have "video out" from the MDD, you will not be able to tell by > seeing the Firewire symbol on your MDD attached monitor when the > process has occurred; however, it has been my experience that the > process occurs fairly quickly, so if you boot the MDD and keep the > "T" button depressed for a minute, that should be more than enough > time for the process to occur (providing it does at all). > Jay > > > > Jeff & (my wife)Daile Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 macguy47 at gmail.com PowerMac G5 1.8 Single (wefixmacs build) 3 gb ram,(1) 160gbhd, (1) 400gbhd, APC 1200 ups, canon 8600f scanner, Brother HL1440 printer, Dell e228wfp monitor Recently acquired: G4 MDD Dual 1.25 (2003) with problems :-)