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<div>Second question first. Your drive door opening on startup is
usually indicative of a USB peripheral making an incorrect call.
Easiest test is to disconnect all USB peripherals but mouse and
keyboard, then try and boot. If that works, open the DVD drive, insert
your system DVD and reboot holding down the option key. You should get
screen that has buttons for each bootable system disk. Cursur over and
click on the system DVD and the right arrow. This procedure does not
change the startup disk.</div>
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<div>Make sure you fix your permissions with Apple Disk Utility before
and after installing software.</div>
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<div>Good luck. I had an accelerated G4 AGP for six years and found it
the most versatile of the G4 series. It is running OS 10.4.2 and OS
9.2.2 with a Powerforce 1.2 Giga Dual and a ATI 9000 graphics card.
Gave it to my daughter when I could afford a G5.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"><b>I'm a new and
frustrated owner of a used G4 AGP powermac. I've been trying to
reinstall a new OS X10 on top of existing OS but can't seem to get
system to boot from install disk.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"><b>Is the DVD drive
supposed to automatically open itself each time the system boots up?
I'm wondering if i need a new DVD drive.</b></font></blockquote>
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