I need advice. I have a 2001 Quicksilver that I bought to function as a home server and have been steadily upgrading. It has a 2Ghz processor upgrade installed, 1.5 G RAM, Atto ULD3 SCSI & 3 matching Barracudas, PCI 4 port eSATA card, PCI 4 port USB 2, running TIger. It's been fine for the past 2 months however as of last Monday it won't boot.
To be exact, it won't boot from the 'Boot Volume' which is striped across the 3 SCSI drives. It no longer emits the start-up chime. Any attempt to activate Firewire target disk mode results in the machine powering down after 30 seconds or thereabouts. All you get on screen is the folder and flashing question mark. I have unplugged all external devices bar keyboard & mouse. The machine can be booted form the TIger install DVD however.
Using the install DVD I was able to boot it and run Disk Utility to verify and repair permissions on the 'Boot Volume'...this I presume means that all the SCSI stuff is fine. Regardless, when you select the system folder in StartUp Disk and select restart it fails to boot!!
The only thing that I have avoided doing is resetting PRAM as this overwrites the patches required by the processor upgrade - and I may yet try that - however, given the odd behaviour, the lack of a start-up chime, failure of FW Target Disk mode 'n' all can anybody here offer any opinions or advice
..one final thing, I was able to re-install the OS using archive and install but this had no benefit..
Cheers
Steve
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