Re: G4 with no chime but instead folder with ?

[Richard Gerome]

Try holding down: the shift key and the P+R when you boot it up and see if this fixes it??? If not you might have to download the OS or do a clean and reinstall??? I used to run into this with my Clamshells once in a great while after running them for months on end, then one day that folder with ? shows up... I always did a clean and reinstall till one day I read about zapping the pram which is what the shift+P+R is about... From: John Martz <zjo...@yahoo.com> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, 26 August, 2010 6:33:08 Subject: G4 with no chime but instead folder with ? On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Robert Long <texasche...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello group,  I got a G4 and tonight I plugged it in to see if it will work. >  No chime but a screen with a folder and a ? then a happy face.  Not the mac > face. Any ideas.  I am not too hep on this stuff.  If it doesn't have a > fatal problem or such I would like to get it  up and running. Hopefully someone who actually knows something about G4s will respond. Are you sure that (1) there is a hard drive in your system and (2) that the drive contains a bootable install of OS X? The folder with a ? I would guess might be an icon to indicate "no file system" ... perhaps? -irrational john Irrational John is perfectly rational - and correct.  That is indeed what this means. The chime tells you its initial hardware test has deemed all to be OK, and the folder with the ? means it can't find a file system from which to boot. The chime by the way, doesn't mean it's checked for the presence of a hard disk. Ted Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we are going... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list