Power Mac g4 will not power up
Power Mac G4 PRAM battery replaced
PMU pushed
VRAM : unplugged, reseated (while wearing grounded ESD strap)
Case closed
15 second wait, power button will not initiate machine
Mac Pro, Power Mac Pro G4
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Power Mac G4 PRAM battery replaced
PMU pushed
VRAM : unplugged, reseated (while wearing grounded ESD strap)
Case closed
15 second wait, power button will not initiate machine
Mac Pro, Power Mac Pro G4
No boot disc. I have contacted the person who gave it to me for anything he may have in the way of SW.
Is there any free-bee on line utilities?
One item of SW I have not mentioned: From the CD player I manually removed a CD labeled "Pro Tech Tool 5.0.1
With some research is this a utility repair disc?
At first I thought it was a Mac "sound" say application for home theater. Have found confilicting information.
If a repair disc....how can I force machine to boot from CD?
I am marking this as sovled.😎
1- Using 10 min. battery removal & PSU & Pram resets is repeatable.
2- CD I found in drive booted using "C" key (even with IBM Kbrd!!)
Pro tech tools is a utility disc. Rather simple at this point I am letting it work it's magic😁
Thank you...excellent venue
Nick
Purpose: Credit due to you too & to speak in "Apple" or "MAC" terminology😎
Reseting the Logic board
This procedure allowed my Power MAC G4 to power, if only to end in Blue screen & repeat.
Finding a CD in the unit Pro Tech Tools & pressing C key during reboot, & physically pushing in CD during reboot (after the system "recognized the IBM keyboard)
Tried during mulitple boots holding various keys:
Shift , Command +S , Command + P + R
These kept going to the blue screen with ciruclar line indicator...or computer is "thinking" as was my first thought of it.
Now to more exploring of ....the world of Apple 😝
Power Mac g4 will not power up