[G4] G4 power up problems

[jj4 at sympatico.ca]

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:23  PM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
wrote:

> I hope someone can help me please.
> I have a G4 and the computer will not boot up properly. The screen is
> blank and if left it eventually boots up.


I will hazzard a guess that somehow the start-up control panel (under 
apple graphic -control panels/start-up in OS9 - System Prefs/Start-up 
in OSX) got changed to a network boot instead in your HD. At least 
that's where I would start.  Next I would probably unplug all the 
network/usb/firewire stuff (not including keyboard and mouse) and see 
if something there is creating the problem. Turn off file sharing and 
or program sharing. Check what is in your Start-up Items folder 
(unlikely the prob. but cannot hurt).

If you really have no idea after everyone chimes in maybe a reinstall 
would be your best option but back up all your data first and make sure 
you still have all the program install CDs for all your programs. 
Schools sometimes have the program-just not here or anywhere else we 
can find-but it works on the machine.

jj