So I have a Mac Pro 1,1 I got from someone awhile back for $30, as I thought it might be fun to fix. According to the guy it was working but I've never gotten it to boot. I figured I'd see if I missed any crucial steps before junking it?
- It powers up, fans spin, HDD will spin up, GPU fan spins, no error codes
- No boot chime
- No picture (Whatever old Nvidia GPUs it had, and a known working Radeon 2600 XT)
- Cannot eject DVD drive (I tried a known working drive as well) when powered up, either banging on the eject key or holding down option suggesting no response
- I tried swapping the (it had 4 GB of RAM, 1 GB DIMMs) and swapped out with new DIMMs suspecting it was the RAM
- Removed all the drives
- Command Option P R seems to be a no-go, even though I tried.
- Try pressing the button in the PCIe chamber, the one that supposedly lights up the error codes. Nothing happened.
- I don't see any burnt traces or obvious signs of damage