Help my Mac please.
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- Jnr_Madison
I'm a 'PC person' but have a G4 (OS9) setup with Pro Tools that I use for all of my music production.
Last night I was just listening to a CD on it and when I clicked to listen to a new track and the fucker froze. Nothing that unusual but when I hit the restart button it came on, sounded like it was about to boot but then stopped. Just sits on a black screen. Same thing happens everytime now. I don't get a bleep like normal either.
It's probably fucked but thought I'd see if anyone can help or point out anything obvious I should look for. I'll lose a months work if I can't get it back. Fuck!!!
- BonSeff0
try putting in the os9 system disk. reboot and hold down the C key. after it loads uo the system from the disk, hit restart and hopefully that get it going again.
otherwise there is a but of troubleshooting ahead
- Jnr_Madison0
Thanks, I'll try.
- Jnr_Madison0
No joy, tried booting from the system disk, zapping ram ect but still the same thing.
Anyone know any good Mac repair shops in Edinburgh?
- johndiggity0
What G4? Is it a Quicksilver? Was there an electrical distrubance.? Does the power light look like it's coming on, and then just goes off, not making any noise, laughing in your face, taunting you?
Sounds like you have to reset the logic board manually. Disconnect everything, open the bitch up, find the battery on the mother board, and look for a little round metal button right near it. Make sure you are grounded, and hold the button down. Count to 15, no more, no less. Close everything up, recconnect all your shit, and fire it up.
- Jnr_Madison0
Thanks. I'm not 100% sure what kind it is, it's quite old, Dual 400 or something. The power light doesn't look like it's coming on. The bitch does start up, makes a noise like it's about to boot but then just stalls. There wasn't a poswer surge or anything.
Thanks for the advice Mr Diggity, I'll try that later.
- johndiggity0
It's a sawtooth. I'm not sure where the button is on those, I'd imagine it's near the same place I said. Do a search at the Apple Knowldge Base for resetting the logic board on your model and they should have pics.
Kind of a funny story, but mine got all fucked up when some plumbers working in the next room started flicking the lightswitch on and off about 100 times to try and turn the lights on. Little did they know that the switch was connected to the outlet my computer was pluged into. I flipped my shit on them after I went to restart and the light just faintly glimmered and died. I had even put a piece of metal across the lightswitch to keep people from using it. But that's what I did to fix mine. now everytime the power goes out unexpectedly, even with a surge protector, I ahve to rese the logic board. Fucking plumbers. I learned how to fix my computer, and learned how to do all my own plubing after that.
Oh and besure the power cord is disconnected before you plug it back into the machine.
- k0na_an0k0
your hd may have shit the bed.
similar problem i had. it would start up and click. the needle wasn't reading right. hopefully this is not the case cause all your unsaved files... by by. i had to get a new hd.
try running nortons disk doctor.
- Jnr_Madison0
Thanks for the help guys.
I actually have two drives, the main HD and a dedicated audio drive. So hopefully even if the main HD has shit the bed the audio will still be recoverable. I hope anyway, oh how I hope!