Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-03-04 Thread Mac User #330250
On 2018-02-24 22:33 Valter Prahlad wrote: > The OP problem is definitely NOT an HDD failure. > > Even if the HDD was toast, the Mac would not shutdown: it would say "I can't > find any boot disk" - or something like that. > And if the HDD was corrupted, the Mac would show the folder icon with a >

Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-03-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Feb 24, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > >> >> Even if the HDD was toast, the Mac would not shutdown: it would say "I can't >> find any boot disk" - or something like that. >> And if the HDD was corrupted, the Mac would show the folder icon with a >>

Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-03-04 Thread Clark Martin
If the OP wants to confirm this, disconnect the HDD, power and data and boot. It SHOULD come up with the “I want a disk” screen. If it shuts down, it certainly isn’t the HDD. A lot of simple debugging can be done by disconnecting things. Minimum for a test is video, power and one bank of