>At 8:36 PM -0800 3/20/03, Hes Nikke wrote: > >>The Hardware Test CD doesn't run the Mac OS, it runs it's own OS that is >>_very_ closely tied to the hardware that it goes with. In other words, you >>can't boot a PowerBook G4 Hardware test in a PowerMac G4, for that matter, >>you can't even boot it in a PowerBook G3 (FireWire) even though they are >>virtually the same machine. >> >>This is done to make absolutely sure that it isn't a software issues that >>could be causing errors. > >But that doesn't explain why this is the first Macintosh I've bought in maybe the last 5 years that didn't come with a Hardware Test CD-ROM. But have you ever found any of them to find anything that was already known? -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti mailto:robert at ameeti.net Murphy's 6th Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>