I'm a designer and this no computer at home thing is not good. Is there anything else you would suggest? Could it be the graphics card? REALLY hope someone can help. I have not tried other monitors on this computer but I have tried this monitor on other computers and it works fine. because it is not an official apple keyboard, is a kensington)Īsked a tech on here and they had me try removing the battery and also starting up from hardware test disc that came with the computer. That could possibly because I unplugged the keyboard and plugged back in so perhaps it is not reading the keyboard? (I sometimes have to go through the sequence of getting the computer to recognize the keyboard by pressing the button to the left of the shift key etc. I tried resetting the the PRAM but it seems it won't even respond to to any button selections, it won't even start in safe mode. I tried resetting the PMU but it didn't fix the problem. When I start it I hear the chimes, light on monitor will turn on, sounds like it begins to boot up but nothing else. I had it on the other day and the screen went black. I have an external display with clear frame around Installed new 500GB hardrive around 4months ago, new power cord, power supply 6months to a year ago. My PowerMac G4 Mirror Door Drive as been working fine. Hoping someone on here has had a similar issue, knows how to fix my problem. since the MDD model (differing from the rest of the powermac G4 series) had a BTX style motherboard, which meant the PCI slots and the i/o ports were upside down. I've replaced many a G4 psu with an ATX one, it's easy as.Hi I'm new to these forums. this case is simply beautiful, plus with the way the door opens up to expose the inside, simply magic however as research continued i realised this was not going to be an easy task. Then ground the -5V wire - although, nowadays, most high end PSUs do that anyway. Now, there never was a G4 300, 350 was the lowest speed for the Yikes/Sawtooth models (You sure you are not talking about a Blue&White G3 - they take a standard ATX PSU, afaik), so if it's a Yikes or a Sawtooth all you need to do is connect the grey PG wire (power good, is unnecessary as macs delay start up anyway - on a pc this is the signal which mobo uses to let you know it's powered up after a second or so) to one of the dark yellow 3.3V ones. You can use a standard ATX power supply without too much modification - you just need to swap a couple of wires over on the plug.
(The G4 is only 300MHz, so having only 1.6GHz isn't an issue.Ĭan someone give me some advice on what they should do? if this option where would I find a power supply for the G4?
Replace the power supply myself, instead of paying $125 for someone to do it. Buy a used G4, or other used cheap mac under $600 What I want to know is which is the best option? This is not the first thing that has died on it, just a few months ago the Hard Drive died, but they got a new one. My parents have a G4 tower, it is like 8 years old, and the power supply had died.
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