I have the PowerMac g4 Digital Audio Edition. I bought it at a pawn shop, and I think the logic board maybe going bad. It had os 9 on it and I went to install os x 10.3. As it started letters were missing from the words randomly. So I took the HD out and put it in my iMac and installed 10.3. I put the HD back in and it booted into firmware. Now I downloaded the firmware update for it. How do I install the firmware. And whatever more advice you can give would be appreciated Thank You... Mike
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Re: powermac g4
Sun, April 6, 2008 - 7:57 PMMike,
..the firmware should install more or less automatically depending on whether you updating os 9.x or macosX...even both
.under system 9.x start 'er up holding the option and splat ( Apple® =) keys down simultainiously.
.it'll chime a couple of times thus clearing the P-R A M - time date, etc...could be bad NICAD clock batteries , also..
..then just extract and install the firmware package after you've set the time and date to the correct ..value
.i am thinking you may have some bad R A M installed..instead...
..both you and the previous poster..might do well to invest in Techtool®.
.it'll tell you what many of the hardware issues are..if that be the case..
hope this helps . . .
alo'ha
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Re: powermac g4
Mon, April 7, 2008 - 8:20 PMwell, after i used my iMac to install os x, i put it back in the powermac. the grey firmware screen came up telling me to type mac-boot or shut-down. i typed in mac-boot and it went to a plain grey screen and no loading or installing of anything. what do I do now? -
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Re: powermac g4
Mon, April 7, 2008 - 8:46 PMcrap,
..you rooted your own machine , Mike . you are in mac osx uniX territory, now..
..not to worry it's still alive and living..you could try typing " fsck - y " in the gray area, hit the return button.. but . . .screw that
..it's time to pull out what ever system disks \ backups you still have and reinstall some version of a newer opeerating system
fergitabout sys 9.x plz.D O N O T try to re-install it ( only as our last resort =) Power Mac confuses me . Tipowerbook makes sense to me
How much Hard Drive disk storage space do you have in this beast ? Does it have a DVD or just a CD drive ? if only CD you must - or should - reinstall macosX 3.9 from the twoor three disks If you have a DVD reader just go fer the latest DVD OS you can get for $100US ≠ from apple® or a friend When you can read some particular disk ..reformat the hard drive as Extended - Journaled without the sys 9 drivers using Disk Utility.. you get to Disk Utility from the CD or DVD by going up to the^^ blue apple ^^ and then ..next to it ..hitting the drop down menu.. this is whilst it is saying " Install "..from the OS installer program. . . if you can read a D V D just install Leopard ® and go with that..
it's the simplest solution ..in expensive , also hope this helps..do that and get back to us..it could still be some wierd thing like dead clock batteries..
btw - that gray unix CLI ( command line interface =) screen ..does it show a time ? It should
alo'ha
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