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After installing a new hard drive and reassembling the computer (powermac6500/250) it will not power on unless you "softboot" once or twice, the computer is equipped with a converter for the monitor that is for a pc and the screen displays "please check signal cable". can anyone offer some advice to what may have happened and how to fix, thanks
Name: Dave Date: September 15, 2001 at 14:27:52 Pacific
Reply:
check to see that the adapter for your monitor is set properly. some have dip switches that need to be set. setting to 640 x 480 usually is fine enough. The hard drive needs to be formatted with a mac tool such as Drive Setup to install mac drivers on it, or if it is a drive not supported by Mac, then you need a utility such as FWB hard Disk ToolKit.
One other thing: some scsi disks have a special pin which controlls RPM spin-up, wether the computer says spin up or wether it waits for a signal from an OS. make sure you read disk manual see if that is so, (ibm, seagate etc.)
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