Sorry, i mis-worded my first post. let me rephrase it.
If the HDD is plugged in, and i have an external drive plugged in and powered up, the mac will refuse to boot, freezes at gray screen with mouse cursur. If i cut power to the external drive, the machine will unfreeze right then and come to a blinking "?"
soon as i flip the power switch back on the external drive, it freezes again.
If i unplug the external drive from the SCSI connector on the laptop itself, it freezes, until i remove the internal IBM HDD.
I tried to boot up the laptop without the internal HDD connected, and just connected the external CDROM drive. the laptop booted up off of the CD just fine. connected the internal HDD back up to the laptop while powered on and live, which is risky, i know, but if i dont it wont boot.
machine still functions fine, and accesses CD just fine still. But if i go to run HD SC setup, it freezes right there. with the MacWait curser. It is strange.
Anyway, sometimes when the drive spins up, the laptop goes into a reboot frenzy, so either my power adapter isnt holding up, or the drive is just plain shot.
But when the drive does power up and the laptop becomes stable, the drive spins and does its power on seek test just fine. doesnt fail or go click click click.
If the HDD is plugged in, and i have an external drive plugged in and powered up, the mac will refuse to boot, freezes at gray screen with mouse cursur. If i cut power to the external drive, the machine will unfreeze right then and come to a blinking "?"
soon as i flip the power switch back on the external drive, it freezes again.
If i unplug the external drive from the SCSI connector on the laptop itself, it freezes, until i remove the internal IBM HDD.
I tried to boot up the laptop without the internal HDD connected, and just connected the external CDROM drive. the laptop booted up off of the CD just fine. connected the internal HDD back up to the laptop while powered on and live, which is risky, i know, but if i dont it wont boot.
machine still functions fine, and accesses CD just fine still. But if i go to run HD SC setup, it freezes right there. with the MacWait curser. It is strange.
Anyway, sometimes when the drive spins up, the laptop goes into a reboot frenzy, so either my power adapter isnt holding up, or the drive is just plain shot.
But when the drive does power up and the laptop becomes stable, the drive spins and does its power on seek test just fine. doesnt fail or go click click click.