I dropped and kicked my G4(accidentally)The screen will illuminate one shade brighter once powered on, but stays in that display mode. Can't view anything at all, it just becomes gray from black. If anything, I would like to retrieve the contents of the hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
DON'T GIVE UP!!
OK, buddy this sounds bad but it may just be a short in the screen.
Plug in a monitor into the port on the back of the computer, Windows should automatically recognize it (plug and play).
If it works, let me know, if not then we need to explore deeper into the guts of the computer. But, before taking it apart, see if this works. You may e-mail me feed back at [email protected]
Let me know,
Mr.Fix-it-guy
Sounds like the computer may be a lost cause ( not worth the price to fix ).
The easiest way to save your data is order a 2.5 inch external USB / IDE drive enclosure off of ebay and installing the drive from your laptop in that.
Getting to the hard drive is the hardest part, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ERjITjOUo
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