We've recently acquired a Powermac G4 MDD.
Upon initial powerup without HDD it did absolutely nothing other than spin the fans up and generally make sounds like it was working (although no chiming \ bonging and or screens that may show that).
Tried a new HDD (it didnt have one in when we got it) and its still doing the same.
From what I can tell, these dont have editable BIOS parameters as a PC does, so I can't really tell much about what's going on.
What should I expect the machine to do if all h/w is working well and it passes the POST?
I expect when it gets to the stage of not finding a bootloader, things should stop, but I think its not getting that far.
What can I check to get this thing past its POST?
Upon initial powerup without HDD it did absolutely nothing other than spin the fans up and generally make sounds like it was working (although no chiming \ bonging and or screens that may show that).
Tried a new HDD (it didnt have one in when we got it) and its still doing the same.
From what I can tell, these dont have editable BIOS parameters as a PC does, so I can't really tell much about what's going on.
What should I expect the machine to do if all h/w is working well and it passes the POST?
I expect when it gets to the stage of not finding a bootloader, things should stop, but I think its not getting that far.
What can I check to get this thing past its POST?
