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Alright... Can you still boot off the original Hard Drive in either bay (top or bottom) with any of your cables (short black or long red)? Lets just make sure there are not some other system issues other than the SSD drive at this point.

Day 19 The PowerBook G4 is reassembled. There were a few missing screws inside, but luckily I keep a bin of spares. The screen could probably use a new backlight (I have a couple LED strips), but I left it as is. Bottom corners are brighter but you usually only see it on flat full color...

Day 18 All over the place today. Stripped down an iBook 14" 1.0GHz to put inside a 12" 1.2GHz frame. I found a couple things that will require mods, aside from the battery connector. Front side: -Power switch and speaker jacks are wrong pitch, but I think I can salvage some from other boards...

Day 16/17 I wanted to check the solder job on my 12" iFrankenBook, so I booted it up from a battery. All is well. You can see by the computer name, that I have just been cloning drives instead of clean installs. And the battery charges when plugged in, so all is good. I pulled out the MDD...

Day 15 part 2 The solder job was a success, it lives!!! 1.42GHz 14" motherboard in a 12" iBook G4. While not fully assembled, I just had to see if I fried anything or not. I did melt the connector a little as I just used a soldering iron and not hot air reflow to remove it from the donor...

Day 15 Time to Frankenstein with an iBook revisit. Since I received 4x 14" iBook G4 parts machines that I cannot create a complete one from, I will use them just for parts. I am going to transplant a 14" 1.42GHz motherboard into a 12" 1.33GHz frame. Disassembly: Remember where the screws...

That Red China Board was documented in our B&W G3 discussion as one of the only reliable ones I found.

My 867Mhz MDD was purchased from Free Geek Minneapolis for a few bucks as a project because it did not power on. I tried the PSU cable mod with a standard, and I get power, but nothing more... it was set aside. Today at Free Geek there was a Dual 1.25GHz with 2GB ram for just over a Ben...

There is no difference in the cables. They have not changed with SATA revisions. Some have a locking clip, most don't. To salvage your 1TB drive, simply find another similar 1TB WD Blue off eBay for parts, and swap the boards on them. I have done that before to recover data from a drive that...

Yes, then I am guessing with you that it is software (mostly) and not hardware (unless its the drive issue). Did you try safe mode once installed on your SSD/HD? Are the HDD era equivalent (not too fast/new)? My two PowerBook 3400c's would not work with some other HDDs nor with mSATA to IDE...

So, it boots from install media and you are able to install the OS on this machine, or you are doing that elsewhere? If yes, this machine, then I suspect whatever SSD/Adapters you are using may be the issue, kind of like the picky B&W G3. If no, installing elsewhere, have you tried starting...

Day 14 I finished the new diaphragms on the G4 Cube Pro Speakers and let them dry a couple days. And I fixed the frayed wire on the amp. Final reassembly today. Not perfect, but close enough. And the only real way to test them was to pull out the G4 Cube itself. Power button was sensitive...

That is definitely a Rat King of mice! Dead SCSI drives. If the same/similar models, have you tried swapping controller cards on the drives? You can also try the Bake or Freeze method to try to get stuck heads loose.

Day 13 PowerBook 3400c 200MHz has a 32Mb expansion card. i would get some random memory errors, but after reseating it a couple times and letting it all warm up, they finally went away. Found a working 7.6 cd and was able to get that installed. Didn't try much else in System 7. Went back to...

I put them on Thingiverse. The mSATA to IDE version and the CF to IDE version. Both side holes and bottom holes should be far enough away from the converters for standard drive screws.

Day 12 Spent most of the time working on the 3400c 240MHz. 3D printed a drive tray for the CF to IDE adapters. I used a 16GB CF card partitioned for OS7, OS8, OS9, and shared (osX). os8 and os9 work fine. Still can't find the right os7 distro that works. I even tried recovering off the...

Day 11 part 2 Got a couple packages in the mail. A lot of 4 iBook 14" for parts and 4 early intel macbooks that are trashed. Got two of the 14" to fire up. A 1.0GHz. thermals And a 1.42GHz model. Not enough parts (top case, palm rest, etc) to make a complete one, so I will experiment with...

Boot from a CD? Do you have any external firewire devices or other machines? Or try a USB stick.

Day 11 So far, finished up my mini amp. Added some colored wires to the amp board and screwed it onto the frame. Then cut the wires to length and soldered to the plugs. Added support straps to the plugs. Like a brother from another mother. And it has a nice little blue LED glowing when...

Is your SCSI chain properly terminated? Have you booted holding down the option key (should get a blue screen boot picker)? Select the internal SSD, boot up then verify the SCSI drive is good by checking it from the SSD operating system. If you go into startup disk, does the SCSI show as a...