Powermac G4 AGP Graphics

Hi All
My G4 powermac has been running very well since I upgraded the CPU to a sonnet 18ghz, then recently updated the software to OSX 10.5, no problems until a few months later some start-up issues, would eventually start-up after about 20 attempts, read the forums decided to buy a new battery and replace as instructed and reset the small switch next to battery (cuda), power button lights up fans kick in and I have a red light on the main motherboard, no chime and no dvd response (will not eject) interestingly disconnect the ide ribbon and the dvd ejects? odd!!, have reseated the CPU, graphics and ram(2gb) in different slots and one at a time, no Joy, Do I need a new power supply? or is there anything else I could try, I'm forever in your debt if anybody could help. Don't want to part with the old girl!

Hi, you may want to try to check some other parts of the system. I also have a Sonnet 1.8GHz in my AGP with Tiger. it is solid as a rock. It boots off of a 500GB SATA internal drive, using a SATA PCI controller card. One thing that is important, is that you updated the ROM on your machine prior to the Sonnet upgrade. I'll assume you did that. Since your computer worked a long time without a problem, what you may have is corrupted data trying to be written into RAM during the boot up. Another words, you may have a problem with the hard drive, or the data on the hard drive. Since hard drives are pretty cheap these days, find another ATA drive, like a used 20GB, put in in your spare bay, write your OS on it, and select is as your new boot drive. See what happens. If you have no problems on repeated start ups, you may have pinned the problem to your existing drive. Good luck.

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