G4 Cube help

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I was installing a new 160gb IDE hard drive ony my G4 Cube yesterday, the cube couldnt find the hard drive in disk utility to be formatted, so I turned off the cube and turned it on to go to target mode, when it turned back on the screen went black and the mouse nor the keyboard was working!! I had the cube connected to my macbook (for target mode) and my macbook could not see the new hard drive via firewire so I though maybe I did something wrong. I turned off the cube and turned it back on (not in target mode) and nothing worked, except for the fact that the cube sounded like it was booting I heard the Hardrive boot and the cd spinning but I was getting no video signal and no mouse or keyboard function. I installed the old HD hoping it was just the new HD that was faulty and again nothing worked!!!! it doesnt eject my tiger dvd cause the keybord/mouse isnt getting power. Does anyone know whats going on? Im new to the cube and I need help.
 
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Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3
I believe there is a 120GB limit on older G4 Macs. Try using Disk Utility from the OS X CD to see if it shows up there. It should, it will just be smaller than 160GB.
 

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