Is it because there's no drivers on the brand-new hard drive?įor what it's worth, I opened up the case and started each machine, and I see no LED indicator lights anywhere inside (I think there are supposed to be some, but I don't know where). I don't understand why I'm not getting any video (and no video is making it hard to troubleshoot anything else). But I get no video from either machine (I have two monitors plugged into each - one via HDMI and one via VGA). I bought a couple of new hard drives and a couple of new (MSI F5450 MDIGH) video cards, installed one of each into each of the two Xeon machines, and pressed the button.īoth machines turn on and the power lights are on steady. None of the machines had hard drives or video cards. The Xeon machines are the ones I'm trying to resurrect.
Of the three I picked up, one turned out to be a dual-processor G5 machine, and the other two are dual-processor Xeon machines. I recently came across what seemed like a good deal on a handful of 2008-era Mac Pro desktop machines.
