Good day gents,
Inherited a G4 Cube that refuses to boot. no chime (does Cube chime anyway ?). no video on any screen I try, either the cubes one or a VGA.
Only some quick flashes (4 ?) on the main power and screen buttons. With a DS2 red led lit on the main board, near the ram slots.
Think it's a ram problem...?
Tried resetting the ram, using only one slot and moving the ram to each slots for testing, using different ones... no joy.
Strange thing is when I try to boot it with the original HD , there is a click-clicking noise for a while, even tho that HD seems to be fine as I removed and tested it. I've plugged it to a usb adapter and could read and test it on another mac.
replacing the HD, I don't have that clicking, but it doesn't boot either.
Do the same with a CD (Cube hardware test) in the tray.
Also tried PMU reset, button is on the logic board, under the vid card. no joy.
Note it doesn't have PRAM battery. Could it be the problem ?
Inherited a G4 Cube that refuses to boot. no chime (does Cube chime anyway ?). no video on any screen I try, either the cubes one or a VGA.
Only some quick flashes (4 ?) on the main power and screen buttons. With a DS2 red led lit on the main board, near the ram slots.
Think it's a ram problem...?
Tried resetting the ram, using only one slot and moving the ram to each slots for testing, using different ones... no joy.
Strange thing is when I try to boot it with the original HD , there is a click-clicking noise for a while, even tho that HD seems to be fine as I removed and tested it. I've plugged it to a usb adapter and could read and test it on another mac.
replacing the HD, I don't have that clicking, but it doesn't boot either.
Do the same with a CD (Cube hardware test) in the tray.
Also tried PMU reset, button is on the logic board, under the vid card. no joy.
Note it doesn't have PRAM battery. Could it be the problem ?
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