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I have a friend's Flat Panel iMac which is starting up to the "?" screen. Usually something I would be able to fix but this iMac will not boot into firewire target mode. I also can't get the CD drive to eject, and I have tried the mouse button and even open firmware. I have tried just about everything and I have come to the conclusion that something is broken other than the HD. Logic board maybe? Any ideas?
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Last edited by peppermg; Jul 1, 2004 at 03:14 PM.
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Originally posted by peppermg:
I have a friend's Flat Panel iMac which is starting up to the "?" screen. Usually something I would be able to fix but this iMac will not boot into firewire target mode. I also can't get the CD drive to eject, and I have tried the mouse button and even open firmware. I have tried just about everything and I have come to the conclusion that something is broken other than the HD. Logic board maybe? Any ideas?
Try restarting with the Option key held down and see if that does anything, or takes you to a point where you could eject the drive.
Do you have a FireWire HD to boot off of? If so, connect it, and it should show up, when pressing Option, as a bootable drive.
I find it odd that the drive wont eject, but I am not convinced that it's a motherboard problem.... yet.
-Ryan
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Restarting with the option key down displays the boot disk select screen, but no drives show up. I used my Powerbook as a firewire target drive and it did not show up as well. Im stumped
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Originally posted by peppermg:
Restarting with the option key down displays the boot disk select screen, but no drives show up. I used my Powerbook as a firewire target drive and it did not show up as well. Im stumped
Can you use the eject button to open the drive at the boot disk select screen?
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Originally posted by peppermg:
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Hmmm....what to do what to do...
You could try manually opening the drive, if you feel up to it:
http://uk.geocities.com/mssres/superdrive.html
Let me think about it some more and see if I can come up with anything.
And, so you don't have access to a standard FireWire HD?
-Ryan
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I don't have a mac formated firewire drive lying around. Also this iMac doesn't have a superdrive so i don't think that manual eject guide will work.
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