[G4] NEW* * * G4 problem

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings Charles,

You should either get AppleJack-1.6 and install it on the bad HD, or  
select the bad HD as the startup drive and then hold down the "Shift  
Key" after you select restart.

Holding down the shift key will cause the platform to preform a fsck  
before startup, a fsck is a disk rebuild/cleanup operation.

The Applejack single use application does the same and a lot more.


Harry A. Freeman
gifutiger at gmail.com

Advice is a funny thing; the wise don't need it,
and the fool won't listen




On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:26 AM, charles whited wrote:

> Hey all, I just developed a problem was in firefox and gave to many  
> commands at one time i think ,right after that firefox quit and i  
> got a msg saying firefox bin unexoectintly quit and do i want to  
> file a report. So restarted FF and it quit again so rebooted system  
> and it started up but no bong and the monitor has color throughout  
> start up but when it displays the desktop all goes to black and  
> white. So i restarted with back up drive and all is working fine .  
> Does any one know what i did to other HD? all is ok info wise just  
> goes to B&W??????
>
> --- On Fri, 8/20/10, J.M.P.Hissel <jomph at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> From: J.M.P.Hissel <jomph at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [G4] * * * G4 problem
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
> >
> Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 4:58 PM
>
> On 20-08-2010 00:57, Don, bgnss at sbcglobal.net, wrote:
>
> > Since we're talking about G4 problems, I have one
> > for the last few weeks too.
> >
> > Its a tower that has the push buttons on the front.
> >
> > When I pushbutton start, the led light comes on and
> > there are four tones, then after a few seconds, a
> > 'four flash' led reaction, and then the led stays
> > on... only to repeat after another several seconds.
> >
> > The machine will not start up further.
> >
> > With no troubleshooting done yet, am suspicious that
> > it is suggesting either a hosed mobo, or else a bad
> > ramchip.  Maybe someone can pin down for sure before
> > I go on the fishing expedition.
>
> Hello Don,
>
> As I said in my answer on John Gilbert's e-mail:
> Please start with giving us more info:
> 1) Which G4?? Yikes, Sawtooth, GE, DA, QS or MDD??
> 2) Which OS??
> 3) How many RAM??
> 4) Etc.
>
> Jo Hissel
>
>
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