G4 Sony CDRW in a G3

Hello
I've got hold of a Sony CD-RW (CRX155E) drive from work, it was in a G4 running on System 10.3. It fits in O.K. and the system profiler recognises it, but it's completely dead! Any advice much appreciated.

MM (Jim),
Jumpers settings from one drive to the next will vary from drive to drive, so that can not be a reliable way of setting those darn things unless it's the same make and model, and I have a Sony model: APLCDCRX140E.
The jumper setting(s) however will really only designate whether it's a Master, Slave or Cable Select.
If your jumper setting is set as the slave, and is plugged into the master on the ribbon, then it would not work. If your CD-R/W has a Cable Select setting, then the ATA ribbon connection would decide which of the two options (master or slave) the device would be, you might run into trouble down the road... but I doubt thats the case here.
I have mine set up as Master/Master in the respect that it's plugged into the zero "O" ATA slot, and is set as the zero "O" device within that Master/Slave configuration for the ATA ribbon — the primary hard drive is actually the Slave to the CD-R/W, just so that in case of an all out emergency where everything fails, there would be no question in my mind that I could always start up booting from a CD. I have run into people along the way where they have changed/upgraded their CD-drives and couldn't boot from a CD, but I do believe that that was more of an incompatability issue within the drive itself rather than how it was configured within the master/slave capabilities... but with that said, I just wanted to be double-sure that I wouldn't be one those who couldn't. And it's always worked just fine.
So unless your CD-R/W is set up as a slave and plugged into the ATA's master ribbon connection — it shouldn't really matter too much. But I just wanted to mention it just in case that may have been that way.
You having the latest of the Rev. ROM DIMM ($77D.45F2), you don't need to worry about THAT as being of any concern within the slaving. Only if you happened to have the Rev. A would you not be able to slave, as I understand it.
Be sure also that the power cable is also appropriately plugged into the CD-drive as well — and not just the ATA ribbon.
I'll check back in again in a little while to if you reply.
Jon Lamont
Artemis G3/525MHz/768MB/Zip/9GB UW SCSI/Rev.3/+60GB ATA/CD-RW/USB/FireWire/ ++ Mac OS 9.2.x Level 4 — (2) G3s, (1) 8500, (1) 6100

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[875P Neo Series] trouble shooting assistance

I have a 875p neo with a pentium4 3.2ghz processor...i have a few diff profiles set up for gaming, normal use ect....the system booted up went to my selection screen for profile selection and hung up ...after a few minutes i shut it down and restarted now all i get is all the fans work including my video board ones theD Bracket lights all start as green and none change ....no beeps at all....im suspecting the processor is damaged...i do use a zalman pure copper heat sink for cooling ...other than that im guessing memory or video board...but memory id be supprised both sticks are bad at once and ive tried each seperately...im real supprised this has happened my system for the most part has been trouble free.....im using a gig of 3200 series kingston...a msi video board the 256 meg 5900 model... and a westen digital 80gig hard drive, sony cdrw...any suggestions would be appreciated
thanks in advance...
weez

i would not even try to power up the sys untill the psu is in place,if the cpu failed and needs a warranty replacement i dont think you will get any fuss out of intel,BUT you may have other problems looming that may appear at some time or another,lack of AMPERAGE {not voltage} can have a very NEGATIVE affect on the sys as a whole,if it is a mobo failure you should be ok with that also,it just takes a long time during a RMA process since it usually takes 4 to 6 weeks to complete each,mark it up to a learning experence,the PSU {imo} IS the most important piece of hardware that you or anyone will purchase for a computer !
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does anyone use the dlink lights at all...and is it a reliable troubleshooting tool
,i donot use it but many here do and find it very usefull. also look here https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=34535.0;all
also the battery can have a bad contact which can cause a no post,also the psu connector pins can become dislodged and push back and cause arching {because of current jumping} that can be harmfull to the pins and sockets.
hope this helps!

[VIA] K8mm-v kept restarting OS

Hi
Hope you can help me with this. I have already done a search on the forum but can't find any related articles on it. I have a problem with this new K8MM-V motherboard that i have just bought. It kept restarting the Win XP OS after I installed the VIA chipset drivers. No problem with the raid, sound and VGA drivers that came with the bundled CD though. My current config is as per below. Tried to find updated chipset drivers to resolve this but none were available.
OS: Windows XP
M/B: K8MM-V
CPU: AMD Sempron 2600
Ram: Kingston DDR400 512mb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200rpm
CDROM: Sony CDRW/DVD combo 52x32x52x16

Remove slowdowncpu.exe or dont install intek chipset update on msi driver disk!.
Well this is on the msi driver cd on the k8vmm board series we started selling these and i noticed the same thing it crashes systems that use semperon cpu's.
Its in the intel inf update the 1st item on menu on the driver disk, msi might have not put it there but it is there none the less, i had an argument at work, i have build over 20 of these system all same thing it becomes highly unstable using a semperon cpu the program is not designed for it.
The fix just remove it using msconfig or hackthis and the system runs fine, i had a bet at work that it WAS on the driver disk setup a hd right out of the wrapper using xp home pulled up msconfig after installing the itel inf chipset update driver there it was under inf/msi/ dir.

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