On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:53:26 +0000, Asshhh Lawrence wrote: > Okay to keep it short, I bought a G4 mac off of Ebay for music recording. > Wasn't aware it wouldn't start up.... You boot from a CD by holding the "C" key down during startup. If/when it boots-up you can see what's on the HD. Maybe, there's no OS installed. (The blinking question mark usually means it can't find an OS to boot from.) Does it have more than one HD and or partition? What about installed RAM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O'Brien