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- MBP 5,5
I bought a second gen. (no isight) iMac G5 with no hard drive and was told it wouldn't power up just stayed black. I replaced 9 bad caps in the power supply & it powered right up. Happy. I had a hard drive from a newer intel imac with osx 10.5 already on it that always worked fine. First try the screen just showed two arrows..one circled and one pointing to the right. Didn't know what to do. Now, it's flashing ? and finder icon on a little folder and nothing else. I tried booting from install disc and hd is shown with red exclamation mark and states it can't install to the chosen volume "mac hd". I tried another hd and same thing. I did a complete erase and still it refuses to boot to the os. C on startup takes me all the way to 'select volume' where it finds a problem. Before I suspect a bad logic board I'd like to know if any of you would like to share some tricks to fixing this that I don't know about.