so i recently dug out my old G4 imac (lampshade model) to mess around on it and do some updates to the ram and hdd. noticed upon booting up that i have some pixels out across the screen, but nothing majorly cutting off the screen...
but then i also noticed i have the flashing folder and it wasn't booting up to the OS. thought that was strange as i had tiger installed and was running fine when i last used it.... but i'm upgrading the hdd to a 500gb from the 80gb that was originally in it. so wasn't worried about the folder issue as i have to reinstall the OS anyway.
but i decided to do a further test of things and found the disc drive is not ejecting the tray no matter what i tried. i shut down (holding the power button till it turned off) and restarted it a few times thinking something was glitched or stuck and would eventually work itself out and no luck.
so from what i can access, i have power as it boots to the folder screen... my USB ports work as i can use the keyboard and get into terminal, my usb mouse works as i can see the cursor moving around on the screen. so it doesn't look like anything else has a problem.
i'm not sure if i can hear the hdd spin up so i think it might be an issue with the power to the hdd and disc drive. i changed the ribbon that goes from the disc drive to the disc drive to the motherboard and that didn't seem to work.... so would it be a bad power connection ? if so i guess it would be impossible to install an OS doing the USB stick trick ?
i haven't tried installing from an external drive yet as i only just thought about that method... i'm not concerned about the disc drive as once i get the OS back up and running i won't be using it as i have a massive external drive i will be backing up to and reading from. my main concern is just getting the OS on the new drive and back up and running.
are there any people on here that have had this same issue and was able to find the solution or install the OS at least ?
thanks in advance for any help you can give !
but then i also noticed i have the flashing folder and it wasn't booting up to the OS. thought that was strange as i had tiger installed and was running fine when i last used it.... but i'm upgrading the hdd to a 500gb from the 80gb that was originally in it. so wasn't worried about the folder issue as i have to reinstall the OS anyway.
but i decided to do a further test of things and found the disc drive is not ejecting the tray no matter what i tried. i shut down (holding the power button till it turned off) and restarted it a few times thinking something was glitched or stuck and would eventually work itself out and no luck.
so from what i can access, i have power as it boots to the folder screen... my USB ports work as i can use the keyboard and get into terminal, my usb mouse works as i can see the cursor moving around on the screen. so it doesn't look like anything else has a problem.
i'm not sure if i can hear the hdd spin up so i think it might be an issue with the power to the hdd and disc drive. i changed the ribbon that goes from the disc drive to the disc drive to the motherboard and that didn't seem to work.... so would it be a bad power connection ? if so i guess it would be impossible to install an OS doing the USB stick trick ?
i haven't tried installing from an external drive yet as i only just thought about that method... i'm not concerned about the disc drive as once i get the OS back up and running i won't be using it as i have a massive external drive i will be backing up to and reading from. my main concern is just getting the OS on the new drive and back up and running.
are there any people on here that have had this same issue and was able to find the solution or install the OS at least ?
thanks in advance for any help you can give !
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