Thanks so much for the VERY helpful list, which I will try soon. It
sounds like the problem is not the computer but rather the operating
system. I only paid $100 for this iMac and it's worked great for a year
so I can't complain too much. Maybe it's just time for me to face buying
OS 10 from t
Yup, sounds like trouble in the making. You probably have some
corruption in your system. Here's a list of the basic system restore
steps, one of these should help. Just go through the list until the
problem clears up.
- Restart (I assume you've tried this, but it never hurts to
reitera
> never released anything slower than a 1.6Ghz G5
Didn't know. Good call, Bruce.
> DID offer 800MHz G4's
Yeah, that's what I have. :)
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Malcolm O'Brien wrote:
>> Why didn't you just use FireWire Target Disk mode to do the install?
>
> I only have the one Mac. Besides, it would _still_ be executing on my
> machine and seeing 800MHz, right?
>
Perhaps you could get friend or member of your local Mac User Group to
bring over a Fi
I have an imac Flowerpower bought used with OS 10.4.11 (no OS disks).
Has worked great. About two weeks ago a couple of odd things started
to happen: (1) Outlines of boxes started to appear and disappear on
the screen, kind of like a ghost outline of something that was on the
screen that had just
On Aug 29, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote:
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>>> My mac is .8 GHz Power PC G% 512 MB RAM
>>
>> I'm guessing you mean an 800 Mhz G4
>
> Actually, the % sign is on the 5 key. ;)
And Apple never released anything slower than a 1.6Ghz G5, while they
DID offer 800MHz G4's :-)
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On 8/30/09 6:20 AM, NorseDruid wrote:
> The firewire port doesn't even show as there.
>
Then I would trying starting up into Open Firmware by pressing and
holding the *Command-Option-O-F *key combination before you hit the
power button. You can also reset nvram by typing reset-nvram at the
p
The firewire port doesn't even show as there.
On Aug 29, 10:34 am, Nestamicky wrote:
> On 8/29/09 6:52 AM, NorseDruid wrote:> My daughter has a imac G3 500 Mhz,
> running 10.3.9. She is running out
> > of room on her miniscule 20Gb HD, so I attempted to attach an unused
> > Firewire external d
> any ideas?
Independent of the Firewire issue, just put a bigger internal drive in!
Note well whatever the drive size limitation is.
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Fran wrote:
> I wrote in about a week ago for this same computer... symptoms are:
> computer does not start
> no chime
> no light
> no HD noise
>
> The only sound is when you plug in the computer and push the on/off
> button one can hear a small' bump' of power then nothing.
> This computer was wo
>> My mac is .8 GHz Power PC G% 512 MB RAM
>
> I'm guessing you mean an 800 Mhz G4
Actually, the % sign is on the 5 key. ;)
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> Why didn't you just use FireWire Target Disk mode to do the install?
I only have the one Mac. Besides, it would _still_ be executing on my
machine and seeing 800MHz, right?
> Sorry for the double post
Wouldn't be so bad except I get everything twice! I've figured out why
but haven't figured
You could try a PRAM reset by holding down Command (the apple button)
Control and P and R at the same time. I had a G4 that wouldnt start up but i
could hear the hard drive spinning and such. The reset usually helped.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Michaelangelo <
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Could also just be the battery
Fran wrote:
> I wrote in about a week ago for this same computer... symptoms are:
> computer does not start
> no chime
> no light
> no HD noise
>
> The only sound is when you plug in the computer and push the on/off
> button one can hear a small' bump' of power t
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