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G4 will not boot up not even from CD
Name: Hector Date: July 27, 2002 at 14:35:19 Pacific
Comment:
My G4 took a nasty crash. It pretty much froze on me while using IMOVIE and doing movie transfers. It was freezing the last couple of times but just a restart and back to normal. This last time no luck, system folder missing, ???? all over the place. I then put my G4 recovery CD and that does not work. It will not boot up from here. Tried a regular OS9 cd nothing either, even tried an OS 8.5 and no luck. Put in another HD and did all these steps again, NOTHING! Any info as to what this can be? Any help appreciated
Name: the pickle Date: July 27, 2002 at 17:11:18 Pacific
Reply:
Try zapping the PRAM and then see if booting from the CD works.
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Response Number 2
Name: Hector Date: July 28, 2002 at 06:18:12 Pacific
Reply:
Did that already and still nothing!!
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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle Date: July 28, 2002 at 09:49:42 Pacific
Reply:
Try zapping the PRAM from within Open Firmware, or see if you can force a boot from the CD from within Open Firmware. The former can be achieved by holding cmd-opt-O-F and then typing the following at the prompt:
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