20 Most Recent Apple Power Mac G4 Dual Mac Desktop Questions & Answers

On the Apple web site, click the spyglass search area and type in a search for g4 manual and filter down from there. Here is a link to that search (correct in March 2015): Apple Support Search

Disconnect all the device. remove the ram remove the battery keep it aside for an hour then put them back , don't connect the power cable , press and hold the power button for 20 seconds then connect power cord. good luck

check apples web site. I believe there is a topic on this issue.

If you have original disks you can insert disk and hold c key until it boots, pick password reset after boot.

Has someone been messing with your mac ?Mail and Safari are installed as part of the OS install so if the OS has been installed then they are there.Have a look in your Applications Folder, they should be there.What are the programs that are Malfunctioning? and how are they malfunctioning?

upon initial power up tap you f2 button or f3 on the keyboard till your dos comes up you should be able to start on safestart there if you havent deleted the trash if you have deleted the trash then you will have to have your hard drive eigther transferd to disk or restore system with the restore disc

Why not remove the drive, place it in a USB caddy and copy as and when you want.

Hello,
This should help.

Launch ScriptEditor and copy and paste this into the script window:


tell application "System Events"


set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true


end tell


tell application "Finder" to quit


delay 1


tell application "Finder" to launch


Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk, hit the Compile icon to make sure the script didn't acquire any errors, and then hit run. This should set the visible attribute back to visible and quit and relaunch the Finder, thus making the change available.


The same thing can happen to other drives, both internal and external. You can use the same Applescript to fix those as well, just put in the name of the drive.


for more instructions click here http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html

2gb i think but mac os 9 only supports 1.5gb

if you go to www.crucial.com you can use the RAM selector to figure out how much RAM you can put into your particular system and then order it from them over the internet. They are extremely good and very competitive. Hope this helps.

I will assume you are talking about 10.4. You will probably need to install 10.3 first and then use an upgrade CD to get 10.4 installed. I would not install a system higher than 10.4 on this system.

I suspect that all you have to do is reset the Power Manager (CUDA) to straighten your machine out.
There are several models of Power Mac G4, and the procedure is different for each. Comprehensive instructions are here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939

I take it that you have forgotten the original name of the hard drive if not just rename the disk. Failing that go into itunes go to preferences and then click on the Advanced tab and you can then change where you media files are.

For iphoto look at this article on the apple website

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229

Hope this helps

hello
can you tell us the error message that you get?

Try hitting the ENTER key when prompted for the password. Let us assume the seller was kind enough to remove the password before selling the Mac. If you are not in luck, try borrowing a System disk from a friend (most Mac Users are really friendly), and maybe they offer you a copy of the CD/DVD. After booting from the CD, you can reset the password easily.

Hello, it semms that you have a "permission" issue, or that you are accesing another account on the computer without noticing it. Please repair disk and permissions from the disk utility on your install DVD:

- Insert install DVD
- reboot the mac holding the C key
- choose english
- Go to the utilities menu and choose Disk Utility
- In the disk utility window, SOS tab, select your drive, and hit repair disk and repair permissions
- reboot

Also check that you are accessing the account that you want and not another one: log out, and log in...

OK sounds disturbing.. You have the same unit I've been happy with for some time.
So....You either have a Hardware of Software issue- First check the Hardware:

If you have it...use the CD Apple Hardware Test. that came with the computer
Once you get it in the CD drive - power off the computer.
Then, restart it while holding the "C" key down. This will makethe computer boot up from the CD and from there you can run theon-screen menu diagnostics...this will give you a detailed report ofeverything hardware wise good or bad in your box.

If all hardware is good then you will probably have a software issue and, you may need to Restore the Mac..with the Software Restore disks ( 4 CDs) that came with your model, then reinstall OSX ( 2CD) (depending on which OS you are using)
Here's a quick link to Apple's info on doing this.Apple

I suggest giving Apple a call even though the G4 is probably out of warrenty. Apple has provided me with out-of-warrenty phone help(usually late at night when they're not busy) for free and gave megreat help.

Also... check in your area for any Mac User Groups..(that's right- MUGs). any missing diskscan probably be easily located there, and these folks love to help.
Good luck...danielj

mite be if cd is duplicate it wont work and make sure ur lens is proper

You didnt change the administrator, you added a profile. SO all the stuff you were using is still in your friends name. You will have to go in as the administrator under his name, and put all your stuff on an external and log back in as yourself and put it on your side.

1. LOG OUT - Hit apple in top left corner, select log out, it will bring up 2 profiles, go in that way.
2. SYSTEM STARTUP - on desktop in whoever's profile click apple in top left, preference and then startup disk, select your profile and it will go to you all the time. Hope this helps.

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Sounds like a system error. The only way round this is usually to start up from your original OS disk.

You have quite an old mac (relatively speaking) and sounds like you are running OS 10.4?

Try starting up from the disk. You should then be able to see your drive. If you can see the hard drive you might back up important files now (if you can connect a external hard drive) The first thing is to try and repair the OS on your drive with the apple disk utility on the disk. You'll find that in the drop down menu. If it cannot repair you will have to re-install the OS. Archive the old system and install a new one. A clean install is usually better. Then get all the updates.

With your machine you will be limited as to what OS you can put on it.