Hello Bruce, thank you very much for the answer.
I am going to give that a whirl and see what happens...
No disks came with the machine.
On the back its says this:
PMG4 800Mhz/256MB SDRAM/40 GB HD/CDRW/RV200
56K MDM/GIGE
It has been upgraded with ram and another 40 GB HD and
I think there is a DVD drive instead of a CD because I managed
to boot the YellowDog DVD from it.
Once again, thanks for the info. lets hope this works and I will
get back to you all.
adrian
On 3/25/2010 11:42 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:02 AM, Adrian Humphreys wrote:
Hello there everybody, I was gifted this beautiful mac g4.
What model? See here to identify:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3082>
<http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25585>
Did MacOS cd's come with it?
Nice looking machine but there is some issues I have with it.
First issue: It has an operating system on it, but the screen
is all messed up. Like snow but colourful. If this were a PC,
of which I do possess knowledge of, would indicate either a
bad video card or a a corrupted file somewhere along the line.
Put the original drive back in, and try holding down the shift key at
boot time.
If the drive has OS X on this will start it in 'safe mode' which is
akin to Windows' 'safe mode' boot only with significantly increased
capability.
If this doesn't work it's possible the video's set at a resolution
your monitor does not handle.
reboot the computer and hold down the command-option-p-r keys whole it
boots, It should give the starting 'BONG' again, let it do that three
times and then let it boot normally. This clears the NVRAM back to
defaults.
I took out the hard drives and put in a spare and booted it
up with Yellow Dog Linux and it appears to have installed.
Only when I restart the mac do I get the folder with the question
mark in it and that is it.
This is good. If you get the it's not a bad video card. The folder
with the question mark is the error that the system cannot find a
bootable system folder.
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