Hi, all, I am afraid that the storm last night may have fried my computer.
I have a G4 dual 1gig tower, and it lost power in a crash of thunder and lightning last night. This morning it would not start up through the surge protector, but started up fine when plugged directly into the wall outlet. I promptly bought a new surge protector, but then the computer would not shut down - it repeatedly restarted when I told it to shut down. I decided to try changing the start up disk (my hard drive is in 3 partitions - OSX, OS9 and the third partition with both 9 and X) to the partition with both 9 and X. Then when I tried to restart, it would only give me the blank gray screen. I restarted, zapping the pram, and now it won't even give me the start up chimes. I can shut it down only by pulling the plug or holding the power button for 6 seconds. Then it will not start up at all unless I turn the surge protector off and on again - then it starts up without pushing the power button at all. I found info on the Apple site saying to try updating the firmware, but I can't start up all the way to do that. I tried unplugging everything but the monitor, keyboard and mouse, but no luck. Any ideas? Thanks! Wendi | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
