G4 Quicksilver 2002 not booting

[jsoulamon]

Greetings all,

I have a 2002 G4 Quicksilver that I would like to hold onto and upgrade a bit.

Recently installed the newertechnology MaxPower processor and now Mac is not rebooting.

According to the instructions I need an updated firmware version of 4.2.8 which you can only get by operating OS 9 classic. Of course my mac was running 10.4 so I had someone install 9 but couldn't install the updated firmware so went back to original 10.4 and I tried the upgrade with NO success.

Is it a waste of time to upgrade this mac of mine or should I send it to the mac graveyard?

Any feedback would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

 

[florenge]

See : Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.2.8: Information and Download
There is a note: Power Macs G4 Quicksilver do not require this update.

You can check your boot rom version in the system profiler.

Good luck.

 

[louishen]

By not rebooting, does the power light come on at all, or does it just wink on and then fade away before even starting to boot