On 2018-02-21 22:20 diane wrote: > I have a 2003 G4 1.42DP (FW800) Good machine!
> The other day though, it started to shutdown on boot (it had been running for > weeks prior to this). I googled and found many references to this but mostly > with a display with a proximity sensor, which I do not have. > > I pulled it out of it's cubby and will clean it out, but I'd also like to > replace the battery while it's open. > > What's the best place to buy them these days? I used to get them at Radio > Shack > but they are no longer around. It's easier if you know what exactly you are looking for. It's a 1/2 AA size 3.6V ER14250 battery. You can get them at lots of places, including e.g. from Amazon. Apropos Amazon, looking at this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MY86M7L you can see that there are dozens of other numbers this battery is known by, e.g. LS3 by Saft. Anyway, I think if you search for "ER14250" you will get what you need... Like here at Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Saft-LS-14250-1-2-AA-3-6V-Lithium-non-Rechargeable-batteries-10-pack/41491651 > Any thoughts? Have you also tried booting in safe mode? This is done by holding the Shift key during boot. Otherwise what Bruce Johnson said, Command + V (for Verbose) which will give a text output of what the kernel and the OS does during startup. This might give some good clues about what's wrong. It could also be a faulty PSU like Valter Prahlad mentioned, or it could be a faulty HDD so that some files got corrupted and thus the boot eventually fails. There are many variables, but you have to start somewhere. You could, if you have one, boot from an additional HDD with Mac OS X installed. I have one as an external drive that I can connect using FireWire (FW800). Holding the Option key after the chime will present you with all bootable partitions, including those on external FireWire drives. If this external Mac OS X boots, then the chances are high that it's just your installation on the internal HDD. You can then check the filesystem using Disk Utility from the external Mac OS X and try to repair it. > Thanks > > Diane Anytime. I hope you can get it fixed. Cheers, Mac User #330250 aka Andreas -- -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
