Hi all,
I'm posting in hopes that someone can help.
One quick question a bit off this topic. Does anyone know if the Return key on the bronze G3s can be replaced without replacing the whole keyboard?
I have a Powerbook G3 Lombard/bronze. In December and January, I upgraded the processor to a G4, maxed out the RAM, and put in a new DVD burner. Everything worked fine for two weeks, but one day while I was surfing the net via wifi with an Asanté PCMCIA card, it froze, and I couldn't shut it down, so I had to use the reset button in the back. After that, it can't find the hard drive. I and another Mac friend did everything we know, and made no progress, we couldn't start from any start up discs from 8.6 to 10.3, nor with DiskWarrior, nor even as a SCSI slave, since this was the last Mac with SCSI. I took it to a local maintenance shop (I'm in the suburbs of Paris, and the Mac shops are in Paris and very expensive), and they couldn't figure out what the problem was exactly, except they said the hard drive is fine, but the Open Firmware has somehow been de-regulated and the address for the hard drive is now different and so it can't be found. I've done a bit of research, and logged into Open Firmware. I've reset the PRAM and NVRAM, and looked at the properties and tried to reset the environment by changing the HD address with setenv boot-device and boot-file and reset-all; the apparent default hd: ,\\txbi doesn't work, and none of the new paths I've tried have worked. I have three partitions on the drive. One with the main system, one with apps, and one with docs, though each of these has a small, minimum system folder. Does anyone know how to find the correct path to the hard drive and reset it in Open Firmware? Is there a script I can run to reset the path?
Thanks in advance,
Keith
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