Hi, first post here!
I don't usually work on macs, but I'm strapped for cash and figured it couldn't be any worse than working on a Dell...
When I first power it on (I hadn't touched anything) it flickers for a few moments and then comes on, then hangs at the flashing question mark/mac face indefinitely.
I loaded the Mac OSX disk into the disk drive and tried to boot from disk (I tried booting twice, once holding down "C" and the second "CTRL") and noticed a funny clicking noise... so I swapped out the drive and started over again but no dice...
The guy that brought this G4 to me, also left a G4 "AGP Graphics" with me with a dead CMOS battery that was causing a similar but not identical issue (the first one would boot erratically, sometimes I'd get the question mark, some times nothing happened at all), could that cause a system to fail to boot every time?
I don't usually work on macs, but I'm strapped for cash and figured it couldn't be any worse than working on a Dell...
When I first power it on (I hadn't touched anything) it flickers for a few moments and then comes on, then hangs at the flashing question mark/mac face indefinitely.
I loaded the Mac OSX disk into the disk drive and tried to boot from disk (I tried booting twice, once holding down "C" and the second "CTRL") and noticed a funny clicking noise... so I swapped out the drive and started over again but no dice...
The guy that brought this G4 to me, also left a G4 "AGP Graphics" with me with a dead CMOS battery that was causing a similar but not identical issue (the first one would boot erratically, sometimes I'd get the question mark, some times nothing happened at all), could that cause a system to fail to boot every time?