Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
Nope! It's not the cable. The other ATA bus is busted! On Nov 14, 11:26 pm, Patrick Lee wrote: > It worked! Thanks! The strange thing is, I tried putting it back to > the previous ATA bus, and it failed. So, I gather this ATA bus or the > cable is busted. I'll try to switch

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
e the best! On Nov 14, 10:41 pm, Chance Reecher wrote: > Switch your boot drive to the other ATA bus. > > Patrick Lee wrote: > > It only shows the grey screen with the Apple logo. No spinning wheel. > > And it will be like that forever. > > > On Nov 14, 10:35 pm, Nest

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
Did that and it's the same. Grey screen with Apple logo - no spinning wheel. I've waited like 5 minutes or so. I think I've messed up the HD with the OSX pretty badly! On Nov 14, 10:38 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 11/14/09 7:34 AM, Patrick Lee wrote:> It only shows the gr

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
It only shows the grey screen with the Apple logo. No spinning wheel. And it will be like that forever. On Nov 14, 10:35 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 11/14/09 7:33 AM, Patrick Lee wrote:> I can't boot > > with the older HD now, which is installed with the OSX. > > What happe

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
It only shows the grey screen with the Apple logo. No spinning wheel. On Nov 14, 10:33 pm, Patrick Lee wrote: > Sorry if I did not mention that! That is the problem. I can't boot > with the older HD now, which is installed with the OSX. Therefore, I > can't use the G4 at the

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
that you can't boot from the install CD. On Nov 14, 10:27 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 11/14/09 7:21 AM, Patrick Lee wrote:> To narrow down the possible causes, > I have removed the HD for time > > being, but still no luck. I'm also downloading Gparted now. In the >

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
To narrow down the possible causes, I have removed the HD for time being, but still no luck. I'm also downloading Gparted now. In the meantime, will Disk Warrior help? On Nov 14, 10:05 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 11/14/09 6:53 AM, Patrick Lee wrote:> If I use Gparted, do I > > h

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
Done that, but still not booting. On Nov 14, 10:03 pm, Chance Reecher wrote: > Is this a second HD you just installed? Try removing it and see if you > can boot normally. > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lee wrote: > > Hi, I messed up BIG time! > >

Re: Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
Sorry for all these questions, but I'm desperate! On Nov 14, 9:31 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 11/14/09 4:51 AM, Patrick Lee wrote:> What should I do? I would really > appreciate some advice! Thanks! > > Try formatting the HD using the install disc. If it does not show up >

Newbie: Help! Powermac G4 Dual 867Mhz Mirror Door

2009-11-14 Thread Patrick Lee
Hi, I messed up BIG time! After installing a new HDD, I pressed the ON/OFF button a couple of times upon seeing that the HDD is not recognised (the multi-colored wheel kept on spinning when I clicked on the new HDD icon). I know I should not do that but that's too late now! Now, the G4 just shows

Newbie! Memory and Video card upgrade for G4 dual 867Mhz PowerPc

2009-11-12 Thread Patrick Lee
Hi! I'm TOTALLY new to Mac, so pardon me if I sound clueless! I have a G4 dual 867Mhz with nVidia 32MB AGP display, running Mac OS 10.3.9. I'd like to upgrade to OS 10.5. Therefore, I'm thinking of upgrading the RAM to 2GB, which is the max. 1. What's the memory stick that I can use? 512MBper sti