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G4 won't power up
Name: imageskvh Date: May 6, 2005 at 17:51:08 Pacific OS: os 10.2 CPU/Ram: G4
Comment:
Computer won't power up - No chime - Monitor stays black - CD/DVD drive opens with button - keyboard doesn't work. Power light stays lit.
Name: denham62 Date: May 8, 2005 at 02:04:42 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried zapping the PRAM? - pull the power lead to force the G4 off, then put the power lead back in and hold down Apple-option-P-R on the keyboard before pushing the power-on button. If you're lucky the machine will chime: wait for four chimes.
Name: MikeHendryx Date: June 2, 2005 at 23:28:45 Pacific
Reply:
I also have a similar problem with my G4 25o tower...
was upgrading from 9.22 to Tiger and after what the installer said was a successful upgrade..the machine rebooted and froze halfway through the restart...had the apple logo and a gear that spun for a few seconds and froze...
I rebooted my machine andViola!! Same problem as mentioned above...Izapped the pram...changed thebattery...tried taking the hrad drives (boot9GB that came with it and 80GB i addedlater) and putting them into an externalUSB/Firewire case hooked to my stepdaughter's I-Mac G4, removing the Tiger system folders and rebooting into OS 9.2.2...no luck!
Any other ideas?? I am tearing out what little hair I have left over this...is this common?? In 9 plus years as a mac user, I never had this happen...
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