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g4 will not boot up
HELP!!!!
I have a Duel 1.25 mirror drive G4 running OS X with all of the updates. It froze up and I had to hold the power button down to restart it. Now it won
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Other than unplugging it and letting it rest for a few minutes… 15 or so…
This is sometimes called the chicken dance or guiness procedure. Leave it unplugged just long enough to enjoy a frosty bev or do the chicken dance.
CaptM
Oh– you have anything in the CD drive? Hold the mouse button down to open the drawer… maybe while you’re at it, put the system drive in there and hold down the C key on startup.
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“maybe while you’re at it, put the system drive in there and hold down the C key on startup.”
What does that do? Will it boot of the disk with out killing my data?
Thanks for the help CaptM. The Mac is unplugged and I’m off to the bar now.
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Yeah — it will boot off the CD and then you can run disk repair from the utilities folder… just to see if there’s anything wrong.
CaptM
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The Guinness trick didn
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