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Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: With A AirPort Card Inserted, There is just a Black Screen.

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:09:13 -0700

So Whenever i insert my AirPort Card Into The Tower, A Chime Does Happen, but it shows up with a blank screen, and whenever i take the card out, it works perfectly fine, How can i fix this issue?

⟐ Answered June 27, 2024 at 9:09 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Is it possible to put leopard on my G4?

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:45:09 -0700

I have a dual 800 system and i was wondering if there was a way to up the speed without buying a new processor so i can install Leopard on my system.

⟐ Commented January 06, 2024 at 12:45 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: How to connect PMac G4 QS to a MacBook late 2009 model?

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:58:47 -0700

I have both machines from the title and would like to know how to connect them together so I can at least get in QS from a macbook.

⟐ Commented August 20, 2023 at 23:58 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Upgrade Power Mac so it gets as new

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:14:02 -0700

Hi, i have a Power Mac G4 and wanna get it faster. Is this possible. Can i upgrade processor and graphic card?

⟐ Commented October 16, 2020 at 14:14 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Powers up but with no chime and a black screen.

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 06:49:50 -0700

I have a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2002 800MHz that will power on when the power button is pressed but will not boot. The button will illuminate but only when it is being pressed. All the fans except for the CPU/logic board fan spins up. The red diagnostic light on the motherboard lights up when the Power Mac is on. The hard drive appears not to be spinning up when the Power Mac is on. There is no chime and a black screen as well. If I press and hold the power button the Power Mac does turn off. I can also power on the Power Mac with an iMac G3 keyboard that has a power button on it, but I cannot use the same button to turn the Power Mac off. I have replaced the PMU battery and pressed the CUDA button and also tried different RAM sticks, but the Power Mac is still acting the same. I’ve even powered it on with no sticks of RAM in it to see if I’d get an error beep code, but the Power Mac still does the same thing. I’m guessing that the power supply would be the problem but they are expensive when looking on eBay so I wanted to know if there are any other things I can try first that could possibly fix the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

⟐ Commented August 17, 2020 at 6:49 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Font panel blocking optical drive drawer after re attachment... Stuck

Fri, 22 May 2020 05:25:29 -0700

I'm rebuilding a power mac G4 quicksilver from 2 non starters. Got one going but had to take the front panel off to swap over the white pastic button mechanism , the bit stopping me completing this build is i cannot for the life of me figure out how to re attach the front panel so that the cd/ dvd drawer still opens. Any ideas on this anyone?

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: How to power 4 hard drives internally

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:59:16 -0700

Ok, I know I’m going retro with this. This is the 933Mhz model. I’ve been doing some upgrading and I noticed that it has the ability to instal 4 internal hard drives. a dual bay if you will at the back, and two single mounts in the middle and up front. However, there’s only enough molex connectors to power three drives. There’s an additional two at the top of the case for the dvd and ZIP drives, but those are used. The one for the ZIP is too short to reach anyways.

Was this option only there for RAID? If so, did the controller card somehow provide another power connector? I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t seem to find it.

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Can using a geforce 6200 agp brick the cpu?

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:37:25 -0700

Can using a geforce 6200 agp with taped pin 3 + 11 and apple firmware bios brick the cpu? I have a quicksilver 933 and it worked fine for 2 days, even done some work in illustrator on it, and then when I left it running Leopard and came back it was frozen, restarted and it gave the bong and 3 power led flashes. Swapping the CPU board fixes it.

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: No power, power button light blinks once

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:13:35 -0700

Having an issue with a Power Mac G4 that’s not powering on. Here’s a video of what happens when I press the power button:

Nothing happens after that one blink. No fan spin, nothing at all. Any ideas? I’ve replaced the PRAM battery and tried running at minimal config.

⟐ Commented September 14, 2019 at 12:13 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: On Button Lights but QuickSilver Does Not Start

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:49:13 -0700

WHAT I HAVE: I have a 2001 Mac QuickSilver 733 Mhz whose hard drive died. I purchased another 40 Gig drive, a new PMU battery and another 512 meg card to add to the two 512 cards already on the machine.

PROBLEM: Reconnected the Mac and pressed the “ON” button which glowed for about 1 second and went out. The Mac did not turn on.

SOLUTION, PLEASE:

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: It boots to a point then shuts down

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 06:07:12 -0700

Hi, I'm new to ifixit, loving it.

In brief, I bought a Power PC Quicksilver M8493, and to be frank, was diddled. When I got the machine home I discovered it had no HD.

Upon pressing the power button I'd get a glow, but no action.

I did a lot of googling and changed out the PRAM battery, pressed re-set etc and started to get a partial boot.

I left the machine for a while, returned and got a full boot to folder with flashing ? no surprise there as there's no hard drive.

It would hold on the folder screen and then shut down. I subsequently discovered that if I left the machine plugged in all the time I would get the boot to folder screen, most of the time. If I unplugged for a while, it would go back to glowing button.

I did some more googling and followed the procedure of

(a) unplug everything

(b) press power button

(d) press reset button next to pram battery

(e) reconnect and reboot

this resulted in the same glowing but inactive power button issue, and after a while of being plugged in, I'd get the partial boot.

I also did the boot with CMD-OPtion P R held down, this resulted in one instant reboot, then nothing.

From my further googling and forum searching it's looking like it may be a PSU problem?? and help would be much appreciated

⟐ Answer accepted December 14, 2018 at 6:07 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Unable to load browser

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 04:12:01 -0700

I have a Power Mac G4 OS 9.2.2 900 MHz processor. On home page of IP, Charter Communications, takes forever and doesn't load the home page (or any website page). At bottom status bar as if it is processing and loading but does not. In address bar at top shows IP home page: but all that eventually shows up before screen freezes is a skeletal version of their home page (links at top to login or go to email, etc.) but all the visual photos, news, etc. don't come up. Even double-clicking in the blank fields does not bring anything up.

In other words, there are a lot of blank squares or fields. Changed my ethernet cable to a shorter one as it is hardwired into our router (it was behind stuff against a wall. This helped somewhat. (It worked fine until about year ago. (Been using my eMac for the internet.)

⟐ Answer accepted October 08, 2018 at 4:12 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: How can I access my hardrive with this machine

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:37:02 -0700

i had a macbook pro but it died. i want to use the hard drive from it in or with a power mac g4 desktop computer i also own because it still works. i know the stuff is old. getting new computers is not an option for me so i have to make this work. I know its possible i just want some direction because i have never built a computer entirely myself.

What is the best way to get my laptop computers hard drive including hopefully its operating system to work in the G4?

⟐ Answer accepted August 25, 2018 at 14:37 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Can I add a 2nd hard drive?

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 05:06:23 -0700

I just salvaged a hard drive from my powerbook G4 and am hoping to add it to my Power Mac G4 desktop, from the year 2000 or so. I have not opened the desktop up yet. Is it possible to add it?

⟐ Answer accepted July 19, 2018 at 5:06 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Wont boot, monitor wont boot either, black screen.

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:16:02 -0700

Mac Quicksilver G4 desktop, first wouldnt come out of sleep mode so I unplugged it, now wont startup at all. On/off button lights up then goes black, no sound, nothing.

⟐ Commented June 22, 2018 at 11:16 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Pressing power button does not turn on

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:32:15 -0700

Pressing the power button, Unit does not turn on. Button lights up for a split second, drive does not turnover. Disconnecting power cord and reconnecting does not help. Is the problem the power button or the drive?

⟐ Commented June 21, 2018 at 9:32 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: need replacement fan, behind modem, ethernet etc

Sun, 27 May 2018 10:04:54 -0700

I need a new fan, but I don't know the part number (or where I can get one) - or what this particular fan is called so I can order a new one? I looked at the teardown and by removing the two screws next to the ethernet, usb, firewire etc., ports on the back I can remove and replace my now very noisy fan which is on the other side - it just started getting noisy a week ago. Thank you! jon

⟐ Answer accepted May 27, 2018 at 10:04 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: upgrade / update the operating system

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:50:41 -0700

I have power mc g4 with OS 9.0.4 version and i would like to upgrade / update the operating system to current ... please need help

⟐ Commented January 23, 2018 at 19:50 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Why do I keep hitting a blue screen?

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:51:00 -0700

So I got a quicksilver from a pawn shop for 10 bucks. It was cheap and I tested it before I bought it. When I got it, it had graphical issues (lines through the screen and such) and didn't boot to the OS. I got it home and attempted to get it running. First thing I did was replace the graphics card which fixed the graphical errors. I then tried getting into the OS. I found that the drive that had the OS installed on it was corrupt and failing. I replaced that, and got my hands on a OS 10.5 retail install disk. It doesn't matter what I do the retail disk will not get past just a blue screen and mouse. I put it in a different machine and used that machine to install OS 10.5 onto the hard drive (the machine has a 1.5 ghz aftermarket proc from OWC so I installed it to an apple file system partition rather than a EUID partition) normal boot hits the same blue screen, install CD blue screen as well, safeboot actually comes up to the OS. Anyone got any ideas what the heck is going on?

⟐ Answered January 23, 2018 at 4:51 MST

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver: Firewire does not work

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:46:55 -0700

I think I forced a firewire cable backwards into one of the jacks and the firewire has not worked since then. I need to fix it but don't know how much hardware I need to replace. It does not appear to be on a card. I have no empty PCI slots on this computer because it's running an early version of Pro Tools. So I guess I need to know how put new Firewire into this old dog? Thanks

⟐ Answered February 26, 2017 at 23:46 MST