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- Your Mac's Specs
- PowerMac G4 DP 867MHz MDD, 660GB HD Space, 1.5GB RAM, Radeon 9000 PRO, Superdrive
I ran into a few problems running final cut on my power mac g4 MDD and long story short a friend opened the console for me and pasted a few commands in from some post online, and long story short it worked. That is, until i turned it on the next day and now I cannot open any applications at all. Some open but never show a windows, others bounce for a few seconds then stop. Also on the finder bar, items like time and airport status and the volume icon have disappeared. I cannot get any windows open except for finder. Not even the log out, restart, and shut down dialogs work. I have to do a hard reset just to get the mac to switch off. Safe mode gets it stuck on the apple loading screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel you get when you load the OS. I dont know what it was he did exactly but he said it was some graphics thing that was causing problems. He mentioned quartz something and something else. When I inquired him about it, he said he just pasted some terminal commands and didn't really know what they did. Anyone want to help? I have no restore disks and I'm not going to be able to pay the $185 price tag for them on eBay.
I do have access to the machine through Mac OS 9.2 and a panther startup disk I pulled from an old imac, but panther has no support for any of my programs I need, and there are no current browsers either, so installing that would be impractical to use.
Basically I need to figure out what he did and undo it, and NEVER let my friend touch my computer again.
I do have access to the machine through Mac OS 9.2 and a panther startup disk I pulled from an old imac, but panther has no support for any of my programs I need, and there are no current browsers either, so installing that would be impractical to use.
Basically I need to figure out what he did and undo it, and NEVER let my friend touch my computer again.