It took so long getting the Mac going again (the power company burned out the powr supply with high voltage) that I have since forgotten the password. Or something. <g> Unfortunately I don't have any CD's that go with the Mac. It came to me used - just the processor. G4 w/ OSX I happily used it perfectly fine for a good while - until the power supply failed. A new one made the unit go again, but now it asks for a password. I don't remember ever needing one before though. After a few tries it began to display: Password Hint: Water or Oil (? <g>) Whatever that might mean. Now what can I do? Any ideas? This Mac makes me laugh - every time it refuses a password it 'shakes it's head: no' by moving the moonitor image left and right a few times. <g> Thanks! ------------ PHM

You need to find a bootable disk somewhere and boot from it. Then you can recover your password and/or change it. Unless someone else has access to the computer when you are gone, there is really no reason to password protect the whole machine.