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bibilit, thanks for your thoughts. I was hoping that someone might have an easy answer without my having to put in the hard slog of working out what the problem is! Initially, the keyboard would not respond to any keyboard input. Eg, it will not reject the CD by holding down the eject button...

Yes, I can get into open firmware by pressing command-option F O, but after re-setting the NVRAM, it simply goes back to a flashing question mark in a folder icon again! Any more thoughts? Cheers!

I acquired another Powerbook G4, 1.67, 17 inch laptop (I have three now!) but this one doesn't seem to want to boot. I have tried a few things to get it booting but nothing seems to be working. I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts as to what might be causing the problem before I start...

Did you check the SCSI ID jumper settings and termination settings on the hard disk drive? The intermittent startup problems you describe are typical of either a SCSI ID clash or incorrect termination. You really need to rule these out before assuming the drive is faulty.

There's a very large variety of different ways of achieving this and as ever, the ideal solution for you depends on how much you want to spend, how critical your data is and what you feel most comfortable using as a solution. The simplest solution for less critical data would be to simply put...

That buzzing, chirping sound you hear when you switch it on suggests to me it's the power supply that isn't working. Have you checked the voltage outputs from the psu with a multimeter for the correct voltages?

From what you're describing, it does sound a lot like a SCSI ID conflict or termination issue, but as I said previously it could also be a lot of other things as well. What you need to do is start narrowing down what it can be and to start you need to check and ensure everythings connected...

Firstly, I'm not sure I'd immediately assume that your HD is playing up - the symptoms you report could be caused by a lot of things. Secondly, a flashing question mark in a floppy icon is telling you the machine can't find a system to boot from. If you got a flashing X inside a floppy icon...

Why would anyone want to buy a quad-core G5 would probably be a better question :b&w: The G5 was just a stop-gap between the older G4's and the newer Intel processors and as such it wasn't a particularly good stop gap.

What I've always tended to do when installing Systems stored on a lot of floppy disks is to make disk images of them all either install them directly from a hard disk or across a network. Just mount them all on the desktop and away you go, given there's no floppy disk reading to do, it installs...

I don't know what OS you're running but have you tried it with 7.5+? HDT 1.8 will load a SCSI Manager 4.3 compliant driver and the Jackhammer should be compatible with that, but I'm not sure the 030 machines support SCSI Manager 4.3. I would certainly try it with 7.5 or 7.6.

It's hard to know where to start because you've given so little information. What machine's it running in? What OS are you running? What's connected to the Jackhammer board? What driver versions are you using? What version of FWB Toolkit are you using? What other extensions are loading? What...

In my experience of these things, they tend to either work or they don't. The fact that you've got flashing lights on it once, suggest it is working. I've only ever used this (mines an Asanté MicroAsanté Print) to hook up a printer on the LocalTalk side with the ethernet side hooked into a...

Have you tried booting the imac as a target disk via a firewire cable to another mac and mounting the disk that way? You have to hold down the T key when booting the imac. If you can get the iMac HD mounted on the desktop you can install onto it. You could also try it the other way round and...

Have you tried rebooting whilst putting a CD in and holding the C key down? You could also try resetting the Power Management Unit, although the symptoms you describe are not typical PMU issues.

You need to get it to boot off one of the install disks - why is it not booting from them? Is there something wrong with the Superdrive? Are the CD's original Install disks for that machine? Have you tried holding down the C key whilst trying to boot from CD Rom? That machine should be able to...

You 'know it alls' make me laugh. Not only do you pick me up on 'potentially' misinterpreting what someone has said, you don't even know yourself what the item he's referring to is called, which is even funnier! First off, there's no such thing as a PC Compatibility Drive. Is this some term you...

Not much of a challenge is it if you're gonna simply ask for the correct drivers! Go forth and seek!

That's a bit like saying, the original Apple Macintosh II (on a 020 processor) is a tad slow, but if you drop a DayStar PowerCache 030 50Mhz into it it'll run a lot faster! You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that out really. The Visioneer Paperport Vx scanner as purchased in it's...

Good luck with getting a PC Compatibility Card to work with System 6.x, AFAIK it will only work with System 7.x. Cheers!