[G4] Gifted with a G4/500

[Ronald Steinke]

On 27 Apr, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Christina Samuels wrote:

> It's definitely not "bonging."

If it is NOT "bonging", what sound is it making (if any)? The start-up  
sound can give an indication of what sort of problem you have. This is  
specially so if the problem involves RAM.

Also, you didn't (that I recall) indicate how much RAM is installed.  
Remove it and look for a label indicating how much RAM is on the  
module. In order to run any version of OS-X, you should consider at  
least 256Mb as a start and put in as much as you can afford without  
having to break open the piggy bank. I don't have any Mac running OS-X  
with less than 768Mb RAM (currently 1 MacBookPro, 1 G4 PowerBook, 1 G3  
PowerBook, 1 PowerPC G5, 1 G4 MDD, 1 G4 Gbit Ethernet, 1 G4 eMac, 1 G4  
AGP, and 1 G3 Beige DT[this is the one with only 768Mb).

The more RAM, the better!!!!!