Fuckity

[jbsegal]

So, the disk swap was easy enough... Except now the machine doesn't boot and there's no evidence the kb is being read. It gets power - and passes it all the way through the chain of everything I touched - from the power switch in the top half of the case, through the same cable that connects the keyboard to the mb, through to the disk cable ( the disk spins) to the led on the front, which is connected through the disk cable, too.

But there's no power-on chime, the back light doesn't, and there's no sign of any non-backlit anything on the screen. Holding 'c' or the trackpad button doesn't do anything with the optical drive, either booting from it or ejecting it.

God damn it.

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Comments

[trysha.livejournal.com]

That happened to me too.

The keyboard power cable slipped out of the "socket" once I put the machine back together.. It seemed finicky.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

But ... If the kb cable were out, how could I power it on? The power switch and the kb feed through the same cable. Hurm?? Now I'm going to have to open it again

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I don't know Macs, but could you attach a USB keyboard to test it?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

The bigger problem is the total lack of anything on the display. Hooking to an external monitor wasn't enlightening.

[c1.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, did you try the old HD on a different machine? Could it be possible that the issue wasn't with the HD, but with the rest of the machine?

[ariesd.livejournal.com]

No chime sounds like a power issue, something didn't go back together properly. Was there any other cables you had to unplug to get the drive out/in?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Again, power is running from power button (in the KB/upper case assembly) to the MoBo, to both the hard drive (new or old) and optical drive, through the HD cable out to the power LED.

As near as I can tell, there are no cables still accidentally disconnected in all of this - certainly all the cables I was _supposed_ to disconnect are re-connected at this time and I've carefully examined all the other connections, especially those that go to the display... and I've got no clue what's failed. :/