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Hi Guys... I purchased an IMac G4 on eBay and imported back to South Africa. The machine worked fine for a couple weeks but soon after the machine froze up a lot especially in safari and a message came up requesting me to restart the mac.
These restart request messages became more and more frequent and eventually the Mac became unusable.
I searched help forums to no end, tried booting in safe mode, tried Pram reset, Pmu reset but nothing has worked.
The issue started when I started installing apps from the PowerPC archive website. I installed apps like open office, firefox and vlc player.
I tried doing a disk verification on the disk utilities application and it took quite a while so I left it to complete and the Mac went into sleep mode and could never awaken at all by either clicking mouse or keyboard. Had to restart by holding power button and that is when everything went to hell. The Mac now freezes on the grey screen with the apple logo and rotating gear but does not start-up os X and the machine just shuts down after 3 or 4 minutes.
I tried to boot from the OS X installation cd by holding option when powering up but the machine does not pick up the cd it only shows the hard drive icon and no disk icon to boot from.
Please can somebody assist me???
Here is my system information:
IMac G4 PPC 17inch , 2003
1.25ghz, 2GB Ram
OS 10.5.8 Leopard
Kingspec 64 GB SSD, model number : KSD-PA25.1064MS
These restart request messages became more and more frequent and eventually the Mac became unusable.
I searched help forums to no end, tried booting in safe mode, tried Pram reset, Pmu reset but nothing has worked.
The issue started when I started installing apps from the PowerPC archive website. I installed apps like open office, firefox and vlc player.
I tried doing a disk verification on the disk utilities application and it took quite a while so I left it to complete and the Mac went into sleep mode and could never awaken at all by either clicking mouse or keyboard. Had to restart by holding power button and that is when everything went to hell. The Mac now freezes on the grey screen with the apple logo and rotating gear but does not start-up os X and the machine just shuts down after 3 or 4 minutes.
I tried to boot from the OS X installation cd by holding option when powering up but the machine does not pick up the cd it only shows the hard drive icon and no disk icon to boot from.
Please can somebody assist me???
Here is my system information:
IMac G4 PPC 17inch , 2003
1.25ghz, 2GB Ram
OS 10.5.8 Leopard
Kingspec 64 GB SSD, model number : KSD-PA25.1064MS