[G4] What's the Problem?

[James Asherman]

I have the same machine.
 I had a similar incident after running a dodgy tutorial disc my friend got.
It would eventually show some little icon I never saw before.
He has to boot from the OS9 CD for starters.
try disk first aid. from the CD.
Jim

M wrote:

>I have a friend who has a G4, 867mhz tower.  He calls
>it the silver bullet, so it is possibly a Quicksilver.
> Then last night it broke.  He has X on it, but not
>Jaguar.  It won't start at all, he says even no
>startup bong.  He's checked the battery, reset the
>CUDA, made sure all RAM and cards were seated ok, even
>though he did not have the case open previous to this
>incident.  This is his quote about the startup "It's
>like it's working its way through the sequence, then
>goes slow and the superdrive buzzes.  Then nothing but
>sightly slower fans and the LED on.  Video never goes
>on."
>
>I know this is sketchy, but does anyone have any
>ideas? 
>
>TIA, Melinda 
>
>=====
>Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong...but I doubt it
>
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