[G4] Gifted with a G4/500

[Chaim The Squirrel Keeper]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, John Niven <senseamp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1. See if it still works (it turns on, I hear the disk spinning, but I didn't hear the Mac "bong")
>
>  This is a little worrying. It should "bong", even without a monitor. Would this machine still have OS 9 on it? It might need a firmware update before converting to osx. This has to be done from os9. So don't wipe the drive yet. Once the firmware update is  done you can junk os9.

The lack of bong is a bad sign, but I bet it could be caused by a dead
battery, which is easily replaced.

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Rich