Larry, If your getting the ? before it boots, it probably means your Start-Up disk is no longer selected in the System Preferences. Open the System Preferences and select Startup Disc. Make sure your Hard Drive is selected, then restart your computer, you should see your Mac boot right up. -- Aaron Willems aaron at macmanifest.com http://www.MacManifest.com Spreading the Good Word about Today's Macintosh. > I keep getting a little question mark appear on the screen momentarily, > just > before my G4 boots. It doesn't seem to stop anything from working, at > least > not so far. I recently installed some software which I understand can > sometimes cause the system to do this. Should I be concerned? I've > removed > my ram chips one at a time and inserted in different slots which makes no > difference, although I did get it to boot one time without the ? but I > could > not repeat it. > Larry > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >