I am trying to repair a late 2004 PowerMac Dual G5 2.0 GHz at work so I can use it; however, the hard drive is not seen at start up (folder and question mark), and also when I boot with option, it does not show up. But when I take out the HD and put it in another PowerMac Dual G5, it shows up perfectly and is bootable with Leopard on it (original installation).
I then tried to put this hard drive and 2 other Leopard bootable ones into a FW enclosure. This external hard drive can be seen by all of the iMac G5/PowerMac Dual G5 tested and is perfectly bootable. It just doesn't get detected by the problematic Dual G5. When I ran hardware test, everything checks out. When I put in the retail Leopard DVD, neither internal nor FW drives would show up for installation.
So then I tried to boot with a USB external drive with a clone of the original hard drive on there, which is not supported by PowerMac natively. I went into open firmware and the USB external drive is not seen on both PowerMac Dual G5's but can be seen by iMac G5 with iSight under "devalias" and is bootable. So now I'm really stuck.
The last solution I'm thinking is ethernet booting; however, I do not have any machine with OS X Server on it. I'd have to somehow make one of the Leopard machines to host the image.
I have tried to reset PRAM numerous times, as well as SMU. Nothing I know of/can find on google has worked yet. Also, there is no 3rd party anything in the Dual G5, everything is original.
I would love to use the Dual G5 instead of the Dual G4 500MHz with Panther on it. I suspect the logic board is bad and that's the reason it doesn't see any SATA hard drive/FW. Besides replacing the logic board which is going to cost a lot, I would like to find an economical alternative. Please help with your expertise/suggestions, thanks in advance!
I then tried to put this hard drive and 2 other Leopard bootable ones into a FW enclosure. This external hard drive can be seen by all of the iMac G5/PowerMac Dual G5 tested and is perfectly bootable. It just doesn't get detected by the problematic Dual G5. When I ran hardware test, everything checks out. When I put in the retail Leopard DVD, neither internal nor FW drives would show up for installation.
So then I tried to boot with a USB external drive with a clone of the original hard drive on there, which is not supported by PowerMac natively. I went into open firmware and the USB external drive is not seen on both PowerMac Dual G5's but can be seen by iMac G5 with iSight under "devalias" and is bootable. So now I'm really stuck.
The last solution I'm thinking is ethernet booting; however, I do not have any machine with OS X Server on it. I'd have to somehow make one of the Leopard machines to host the image.
I have tried to reset PRAM numerous times, as well as SMU. Nothing I know of/can find on google has worked yet. Also, there is no 3rd party anything in the Dual G5, everything is original.
I would love to use the Dual G5 instead of the Dual G4 500MHz with Panther on it. I suspect the logic board is bad and that's the reason it doesn't see any SATA hard drive/FW. Besides replacing the logic board which is going to cost a lot, I would like to find an economical alternative. Please help with your expertise/suggestions, thanks in advance!