My last effort before sending my G4 Power PC in..
Symptoms: Would not boot up from either of two internal Hard drives. Just the Apple and the clock under which kept spinning.
It did boot up off the external which had the OS installed. Then, that did not work.
Took to Apple "Genius Bar" and the booted up off their 'puter, ran disk utilities, etc (as I had) then tried to boot up off my two internals-same problem.
They suggested a corrupt OS on all drives and to reformat drive/clean install.
I took out the two internal drives, installed a new internal 500 gig, OSX 9.3.3 installed fine. Booted up-same thing...spinning clock under the apple. Like the energizer bunny it just kept going and going and going...
So next I took out one of the two 1 gig ram chips (left the one in the first slot) rebooted-no change. I replaced t
he one ram chip with one I took out, rebooted, no change.
Next thing I was told to try is take out the 2906 card I have installed and try a reboot
which I have not done yet.
After that or even before, what do you wizzards suggest?
Stats: Mac G4 Power PC dual 1.47 ghz processors. The last G4 made I believe.
Firewire 800/400
It also would not recognize the airport extreme card I installed-if'n it gets back to working, any thoughts on that?
To add insult to injury, this laptop took a hard drive dump last week as well. Managed to copy files off when holding upside down which was the only position the drive would boot from. Installed new internal, reloaded and now I have one working 'puter.
Thanks in advance. No Anti-mac or "get a pc" comments please...
Matt
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