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performa_karma
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on: December 11, 2007, 11:27
i recently found my OLD P6300CD in a closet at my parents' house and brought it home with me. Last time i used it I apparently was trying to put OS 8.0 on it because when i turned it on it booted in to the CD which was still in the drive. The internal HD mounted as . and only had the Finder on it. I tried initializing the disk as I wanted to put 7.5.3 on it instead. After numerous attempts, it always returned a message telling me initialization failed. so i had a PM5500 whose HD i removed and placed in the P6300CD. when i turned on the machine, nothing happened. all it displays is a blank screen with the mouse pointer. i thought perhaps it was trying to boot from the transplanted HD (which has 9.0 on it) so i put the OS8 CD in the drive and restarted. still nothing. then i tried booting from the OS8 disk tools floppy. no dice. additionally i transplanted the motherboard from the PM5500 into the P6300CD. before i did that the startup chime on the P6300CD didn't chime; now it does. however before the transplant, although it wouldn't chime it would boot from the floppy or CD; with the new motherboard it does not. i know that both the chime and boot instructions are housed in the ROM. is this a ROM problem? any help would be appreciated as i'm anxious to get this comp off my dining room table and onto my desk for use. thanks. |
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92 
Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 14:01
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I would try pressing the cuda switch. Also see if the motherboard battery is dead. That's about all I can thin k of - good luck.
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performa_karma
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4 MB Posts: 6
Reply #2 on: December 12, 2007, 21:47
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what's a cuda switch?
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 08:19
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Here's a photo and an explanation for the cuda switch: http://www.zone6400.com/manual/files/CUDA.html
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