Might be the battery. On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Roxylee wrote: > Hi, can anyone shed some light on why this is happening? My G4 QS > 2002, running Tiger, has been intermittently shutting down right > after the desktop loads, but only when my audio interface (Saffire > LE)is plugged in. This is something that has been happening > intermittently for a few weeks. Yesterday I was able to start it up > and record; today it shut off again. I can't afford to start > replacing parts as trial and error. I hope the motherboard isn't > being fried every time I start up the G4. Has anyone ever > encountered such a problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > Thank you. :-) > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4