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darque
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Old g4 silver, OSX 10.4 have had since new, all the bells and whistles, sits in office OFF for months at a time till i need to use it for a job. It turns on fine then, but after on for more than 24 hours, computer is off and refuses to restart. power button lights up then once finger leaves button~ light shuts off~ never starts... until a few days later when (cold cold cold ) again???
i tried removing all accessories, external drives ect, same thing.
zapped p ram
maybe this narrows it down... trying to diagnose the issue i removed all extra boards, ram, cleaned it reinstalled and it still did not turn on... but i noticed it makes a subtle noise when i plug the power cord back into the computer, unplug replug hear something so faint hard to actually notice... changed power cord and same thing.
but a few days later it turns back on and seems lightning fast.
power supply ???
also, sometimes movies played on external hardrive seem to be skipping/jumping... wondereding if these issues were related?
video/graphics card going bad??
if anyone has a suspicion of what they think please let me know
thanks everyone
I am not sure if im going crazy, but random electronic things in my home occasionally seem to not work correctly... then a few days later everything fine again. even remote controls...errrrr (i have witnesses) hheeheheheeh
thanks again
i tried removing all accessories, external drives ect, same thing.
zapped p ram
maybe this narrows it down... trying to diagnose the issue i removed all extra boards, ram, cleaned it reinstalled and it still did not turn on... but i noticed it makes a subtle noise when i plug the power cord back into the computer, unplug replug hear something so faint hard to actually notice... changed power cord and same thing.
but a few days later it turns back on and seems lightning fast.
power supply ???
also, sometimes movies played on external hardrive seem to be skipping/jumping... wondereding if these issues were related?
video/graphics card going bad??
if anyone has a suspicion of what they think please let me know
thanks everyone
I am not sure if im going crazy, but random electronic things in my home occasionally seem to not work correctly... then a few days later everything fine again. even remote controls...errrrr (i have witnesses) hheeheheheeh
thanks again