Does it even have a hard drive? Is there anything on it if does? Do you have another machine you can put the drive in to check it out? Some Links that might give you some ideas follow: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1096729 Monitor was the culprit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547 Power On Self Test http://www.mac-help.com/forums/showthread.php?t=780 No start http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367 Won't turn on http://www.maclife.com/forums/post/1637580 Let us know if you figure it out. I'll keep my thinking cap on and post back if I discover anything else that might help. Daniel On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Shane Hartley wrote: > I picked up a quicksilver g4 that wont boot. push the power button > and it lights for a second and the fans power up, and the red led > light lights up on the board. But no chime and nothing but black > screen. I replaced the battery and reset the cuda.... but no go.