Given I know Maxtor drives have a reputation what would be the best way to test it against failure on this Mac?

The video card works. YES.

⟐ Commented April 14, 2024 at 22:17 MST

I recently got a Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)

And when I connected it to a monitor and powered it up, vertical red lines showed up on the monitor, no weird noises, it does seem to boot up correctly by the sound of it.. The pc itself is in great outer condition and seems to be looking great from the inside.. what would you recommend doing?

⟐ Commented August 06, 2020 at 9:06 MST

⟐ Answer accepted December 06, 2019 at 5:33 MST

then I wait, I turn it on again, and same happen again it goes off

⟐ Answered November 18, 2019 at 12:29 MST

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⟐ Answer accepted June 07, 2019 at 4:59 MST

⟐ Commented December 21, 2018 at 10:14 MST

From what I could see on the mother board it has 3 128Mb RAM's and 2 40Gb HD's

⟐ Answer accepted November 26, 2018 at 5:46 MST

⟐ Answer accepted November 16, 2018 at 5:52 MST

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Thanks Again .

⟐ Answer accepted November 15, 2018 at 17:31 MST

Can I fix/replace the modem? I've already tried three different types of wired connectings, none of which have worked.

Help please!

⟐ Answered October 25, 2018 at 18:28 MST

⟐ Answer accepted July 20, 2018 at 5:14 MST

I was able to get back to the installation window, by holding down the "C" button while it rebooted. It then asked me to reinstall Leopard. After a short time, I got a message on the screen accompanied by a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark inside it. The accompanying comments said that the instalation had failed, and the disc may have been damaged, yet when I took the disc to a local computer store, they were able to successfully install it on one of their machines.

⟐ Answer accepted June 15, 2018 at 5:20 MST

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⟐ Answered April 18, 2018 at 8:42 MST

power supply on my G4 M5183 is dead so I bought a used G4 M8493 and wanted to take its power supply instead. Now that I opened both Macs I see that the specifications written on the two power supplies are quite similar but not exactly the same.

Is that a problem? Can I use the replacement?

Best

Claus

⟐ Answered March 31, 2018 at 7:40 MST

⟐ Answer accepted March 28, 2018 at 4:44 MST

I'm thinking about upgrading the CPU board with the Quick Silver CPU board of 867 MHz.

• Are their connectors the same?
• Does the system take it?
• Is there anything else I need to take care of?

Thanks for your help.

⟐ Edited December 08, 2017 at 15:06 MST

Wouldn't power up a couple of months ago. Randomly one day after several weeks I hit the power button and it was fine. Have used it 4-5 times over a couple of weeks since then. Tonight after about 3-4 minutes it shut down as if the power cord had been pulled. It will not power up. I was using a browser when it happened. I know the AC cord is live, I can hear the small electrical click when the contacts make a connection with the machine. The PRAM(?) battery reads 3.7v with a meter. I removed it for 10 minutes once and then an hour once, following reset procedure to no avail. All peripherals were disconnected during attempted reset. I do not see any lit LEDs on the motherboard although I don't recall ever seeing one but I have read that maybe there is one. (A few years ago I replaced the power supply after the tower would not power up following a neighborhood power outage due to lightning. We seem to have several outages each year in this area. Just background info, don't know if there's any relation to current problem.)

⟐ Answer accepted September 22, 2016 at 4:40 MST