Ok get this *scratches head*...

[coius]

I have a solo 867Mhz 2001 Quicksilver (2001 with an 867Mhz CPU) with the following specs below:

867Mhz 7450 PPC G4

1.5GB PC-133 RAM (all apple certified, known working in a sawtooth)

40GB IDE HDD

CD-RW/DVD-+RW DL (depending on which one I can get to work)

GeForce4 MX AGP 4x 64MB

This thing has me scratching me head

This is what I have tried:

*Booting from FireWire

*Booting from CD/DVD (Panther, Leopard, Tiger, Jaguar) All retail

*Booting from SATA HDD off of a Sonnet TempoSATA PCI card

Booting from another Internal IDE 80GB HDD with a Tiger/Leopard disc imaged to it (to try to do the install off of it)

It will boot from the 40GB HDD IDE. But will not, for the life of me, boot from any other drive. It will go into FWTDM, but I can't see the Drives. If I hold down "Option" it shows the screen where you select (Blue Background) but the cursor hangs. If I hold down "C" the system sits at a light grey screen (Not OS X Grey, just grey, like slightly darker than O.F. Screen, but lighter than OS X Boot Grey)

I have all the latest updates for the system (firmware for System, SATA card, Video Card, DVD/CD Drives) but it will NOT boot from anything other than the boot drive.

I have tried disconnecting the IDE HDD, but it still won't boot, and in some cases shuts off. RAM is Known working, once i boot from the IDE HDD, it runs perfectly stable. Nary a hiccup.

Can anyone shed some light on this? It's driving me nuts!

I have done the usual (Reset PRAM/NVRAM/CUDA/ Pulled power without battery for 4 days to drain) and nothing works

Show me some love please?

 

[Dog Cow]

Have you tried taking out all drives except for the optical, and then giving it a go? That way it would force it to boot off the disc, or not at all.

Sometimes my b&w G3 would like to sit around and scratch its head for about 5 minutes before deciding to boot from a CD, so I would go to the Open Firmware (Command-Option-O-F) and type

boot 32

, then return. That will put a Mac OS logo on the screen, then sometimes the Mac will go into action straight away. Works with hard drives as well.

 

[Christopher]

Have you tried removing the SATA card and just using the IDE drive?

 

[coius]

Have you tried taking out all drives except for the optical, and then giving it a go? That way it would force it to boot off the disc, or not at all.
Sometimes my b&w G3 would like to sit around and scratch its head for about 5 minutes before deciding to boot from a CD, so I would go to the Open Firmware (Command-Option-O-F) and type

boot 32

, then return. That will put a Mac OS logo on the screen, then sometimes the Mac will go into action straight away. Works with hard drives as well.

Thanks, I'll try that and see. I have started with only the Optical drive connected (no HDD, no cards except video), but I got no where. I shall try what you suggest and report back

Have you tried removing the SATA card and just using the IDE drive?

Yup! tried all the way down to a bare minimum and even just 128MB Memory. Even tried an OS 9.2.1 CD (and 9.1) to see if it was OS X Problems. It was a no-go. I will try what Dog Cow suggested, but right now I am sick with the flu and won't be doing much with computers at the moment. I even had to put off work (which I am bummed about since I like what I do) and am pretty much doing nothing but sleeping and trying to hold down fluids.

Sorry if I don't report back soon, but I just gotta worry about my health above all other things.

On a good note, I got paid today for a $300 PC I sold (that cost me only $200 to build) and that I gave him a CRT monitor, Keyboard and Mouse and speakers (which I had laying around even the PC) and am pretty happy about that.