Imac question hey guys thanks for your help my question is? I found a nice Imac G4 in a computer auction It looks in nice shape from the outside but when I turn it ON a white screen will appear and the apple logo, it looks like is loading. and that's it it wont do anything.. the Imac came with a keyboard and power cord. any help thanks.

You can't watch Hulu on a PowerPC iMac G4. You need an Intel processor based Mac to watch Hulu and Netflix.

The only thing I have found that will work with these speakers is called the Griffin iFire. It use a firewire port on your mac to power the speakers and has a normal mini plug on the end of it. However, saying this they are not readily available you may be able to pick them up on ebay or another auction site at some point. An review of the iFire can be found at http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/general/54505/griffin-ifire

Hi,

You could buy it from :-

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-iMac-G4-Motherboard-820-1501-A-w-1-Ghz-CPU_W0QQitemZ190357167341QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotherboards?hash=item2c522bdced

It is Available Right Now.

Hope i helped you.

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Well if a new power supply and battery and board reset didnt work you have hit all the stuff it might be other than the board itself.

Best way to retrive your data is get a external enclusure put in the hard drive and plug it into the new Imac.

I have found sometime people have bent or unplugged some ribbon cords in the Imac and they are finicky after that but since yours just happened I am not sure.

Hope this helps. Sorry your Mac isnt playing nice.

Hi there,

That sounds like it would fix it. Have you recently updated the memory in the imac? It may be incompatable. Otherwise it may simply have become faulty over time.

Please make sure that before you open up your imac, you're not voiding your warrenty. I know that the aluminium imacs allow this, but i dont think the G4 versions do.

Hope this helps,

Nathan.

Looks like it is pretty simple to install ram on the iMac g4. Here are screen shots from the imac manual that describes the process. (see below)

Your logic board and graphics chips are fine. But it's possible that some of the settings have been corrupted which is causing the problem. To rectify this, first of all in the Display settings (in the system preferences) click the button to 'Detect Displays'. If that doesn't help it you just need to reset the PRAM. Here are the links to the Apple site for instructions on how to do this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US

If the computer is a PowerBook (as inferred by 'titanium' in your subject heading) rather than an iMac then you can also reset the PMU:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431?viewlocale=en_US

That should hopefully sort it out. By the way, just to help us out when giving a diagnosis be sure to put the item in the correct category (Titanium g4 isn't an iMac) just to avoid confusion.

All the best
Sean

The most common problem with imac G4/800's are failing logic-boards. This will cause the mac to not power up at all giving the impression that the PSU is broken. 
If however, you are indeed certain that the fault is with the power supply, they are available from many stores online
Power Supply for iMac G4 15" LCD (700 & 800 Mhz) 661-3184 614-0147

With a non-apple keyboard simply hold down F12 and it will eject the tray

Hey,

The problem is definitely on the computer - software side. as both of the keyboards work fine, its just a software issue. Can you get the original software back to your mac?