On 11-01-2007 16:53, Asshhh Lawrence, biffy_clyro at hotmail.com, wrote: Okay to keep it short, I bought a G4 mac off of Ebay for music recording. <snip> Should i just buy a formatted hard drive from ebay and try the OS 9 disk on there? Gah, Help! Specs: - G4 - 450MHz - 40GB Hard Drive - 256MB Ram - DVD - 2 X USB - 2 X Firewire - 56KB Modem - 10/100 Ethernet Have you already opened the case? Is there RAM in the Mac? How many sticks? What kind of videocard is in the Mac?? Look on the Mac (backside, bottom) if you find a print/sticker with a barcode and a Serial Number (must have 11 caract.). Write down this Serial Number and mail it to the list. Or you can check it yourself, goto <http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html> don't be afraid, page is in English also. We'll know more then how to go on. Jo Hissel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20070111/c78c5762/attachment.html