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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

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 3:17 PM

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Mar 25, 2013 7:04 PM in response to BDAqua

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?

Mar 25, 2013 7:55 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

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

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