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iMac G4 won't boot - I'm desperate
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<blockquote data-quote="s_sador" data-source="post: 1447629" data-attributes="member: 272833"><p>Hey guys,</p><p></p><p>Just inherited a pristine G4 700Mhz iMac and while I was trying it out, it had booted in OS 9.2 after several times (I think I've pressed alt or something) and said something about memory issue but otherwise you could work in it.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that now it does not want to boot. There is the startup chime and the sleep light goes on but the screen stays black. It won't respond to keyboard commands (reset PRAM, open disc tray, switch start up disks) either.</p><p>There is however, a high pitched noise coming from it. That could be the fan because it's full of dust but if the disk had failed, I could have force it to boot from an external USB drive, right?</p><p></p><p>Please, any assistance will be helpful. I'm an avid collector of vintage Macs and this one is really in in mint condition. Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s_sador, post: 1447629, member: 272833"] Hey guys, Just inherited a pristine G4 700Mhz iMac and while I was trying it out, it had booted in OS 9.2 after several times (I think I've pressed alt or something) and said something about memory issue but otherwise you could work in it. The problem is that now it does not want to boot. There is the startup chime and the sleep light goes on but the screen stays black. It won't respond to keyboard commands (reset PRAM, open disc tray, switch start up disks) either. There is however, a high pitched noise coming from it. That could be the fan because it's full of dust but if the disk had failed, I could have force it to boot from an external USB drive, right? Please, any assistance will be helpful. I'm an avid collector of vintage Macs and this one is really in in mint condition. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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