I have a 17" PBG4 that will not boot up when an internal drive is installed in it. I have tried 2 known good drives.
Trying to boot normally just produces a white screen. Holding down the "Option" key when booting gets me into the boot loader, but it proceeds to crash and never displays any boot volumes.
If I remove the internal drive, and attach a firewire drive with a bootable partition, i can boot the computer just fine from the boot loader.
I suspect it must be either the cable that connects the drive to the logic board, or the logic board itself...
If anyone has any experience with this, it would be most appreciated!
Trying to boot normally just produces a white screen. Holding down the "Option" key when booting gets me into the boot loader, but it proceeds to crash and never displays any boot volumes.
If I remove the internal drive, and attach a firewire drive with a bootable partition, i can boot the computer just fine from the boot loader.
I suspect it must be either the cable that connects the drive to the logic board, or the logic board itself...
If anyone has any experience with this, it would be most appreciated!