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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: hm_murdock on 27 December 2005, 02:31

Title: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 27 December 2005, 02:31

Well, I wondered why my old iMac wouldn't boot. I found out why. HD logic failure.

Sux!

I'll tell more later!

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: Lead Head on 27 December 2005, 02:50

that sucks, also did your space bar break?

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 27 December 2005, 03:32

Nope. The spacebar on the Pro Keyboard is fine.

Here's what happens.

On the Power Mac G3 (Rev 2), on the secondary IDE channel, the drive reports as a 7.5GB EIDE device. It's actually a 20GB drive. The manufacturer is reported as "Laxltr 30049H2 B" rather than Maxtor.

In the iMac that it was pulled from, it caused the IDE channel to not read. With it out, the iMac will boot from CD.

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: Lead Head on 27 December 2005, 06:34

see if you can find an identical HD from somewhere and switch the logic boards on the HDs, that should work

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: Orethrius on 27 December 2005, 07:33

Hey, he should be proud, he's got a friggin LAXLTR in there!  Wow!  :D

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: Lead Head on 27 December 2005, 16:00

i had something similar like that happen to me with a CD-rom drive, the ide cable was bad

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 27 December 2005, 17:59

That was my first thought... however, it's malfunctioning in two different machines, two different cables. Even the ATA controllers are different. I'm going to try a few things today. I'll keep you posted!

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: TheQuirk on 28 December 2005, 01:29

At least it got the x right.

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: Lead Head on 28 December 2005, 02:17

and the A and the R

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: worker201 on 28 December 2005, 04:55

Is this a different issue than the graphics logic board?  Because I lost that one recently, but after the free replacement, things are just fine.  It would appear to boot, but the screen wouldn't come on.  Crazy shit, glad it got fixed for free.

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 28 December 2005, 05:53

No, this is just an HD going out. The issue occurs in both the iMac, and a Power Mac G3 (blue and white).

The graphics in the iMac... no problem there. It's a slot-load, and until now, none of the slot-loads have had any failures.

Title: Re: Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 31 December 2005, 01:57

It was the jumpers. The master-only jumper was on. I removed it and now it's fine. I guess it was the IDE bus on the old iMac :(