macuserman
Well-known member
Alright so I picked up this 1400cs on ebay for super cheap, like 40 bucks and it was in very rough shape, when I got it I could shake it and there were screws rattling around inside, lots of broken plastic etc. I took it all apart fished out all the loose screws and patched it back up. It turned out pretty good actually the only problem is it didn't detect the drive just a flashing folder. So I tried swapping in several of my drives but none of them were detected while booting of an install CD. I even used a usb adapter to plug one into my G4 tower just to make sure it wasn't a bad drive and it shows up no problem. Any idea why the hardrive wont' show up in this thing, I can put floppy disks in, or compact flash card, cd of course everything shows up and the machine seems to work great except I can't get a drive to show up. Should I just get a big compact flash card and install the OS to the PCMCIA slot on a compact flash card? I only have a small 32MB one I was using to test things with. Or any tips on what might be the problem with the drive showing up? I already checked the ribbon and seems well connected although I suppose it could be damaged.
Wide open to any ideas, this is a cheap machine just to have some fun with but not being able to install an OS on it sort of kills the whole thing lol.
Wide open to any ideas, this is a cheap machine just to have some fun with but not being able to install an OS on it sort of kills the whole thing lol.