20 Most Recent Apple Power Mac G4 Desktop - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Not sure what you mean by loud Hard Drives. Hard drives are so quiet you can barely hear them. If they are loud the only cure is replacement. However, I have never heard a hard drive that I would consider 'loud' in all my years in computing./ As you show a mirror fronted mac in your question - I think you may mean loud 'Fans'. This mac was notorious for its loud fans. They can be replaced, but I seem to remember a firmware fix from Apple to slow them down - or it may have been a 3rd party utility.

There is no real solution that makes it easy. I would download VLC Media Player from videolan.org, and using that, copy the YouTube link, open VLC, then click Media, then Open Network Stream, and paste the link into the window that opens. The video should play faster than on the YouTube website.

burn a version of OS X onto a CD/DVD from a mac computer and insert it into the computer on start up hold down "C" until you can hear the CD/DVD loading.

The drive may not be formatted to correctly to work with a Mac as most are pre-formatted for PC use.
Use the Disc Utility on your Mac application to format your drive as Mac OS Extended.
Use the Zero out data option for best results, this may take an hour or two. It's in he Erase section.

Make sure access door is closed and latched completely & try pulling power cable for 30 sec then reattach and try restart. If those don't work - contact macsales.com (excellent Apple/Mac folks)

That is a RAM Failure.
Remove and reinstall RAM and see if that will fix it.
If not, replace RAM

I dont suggest it, you are better off with Safari, but here is a link for the App.

http://mac.oldapps.com/internet_explorer.php?old_internet_explorer=14

hope this helps.

This could well be to do with your internet connection - almost everyone suffers from slow speeds sometimes. If this isn't the problem, perhaps downloading the newest version of Firefox would help. Firefox is a great browser, but known to be slow. Do you have these problems in Safari, too?
Hope that helped!

Go to Apple.com -> "support" and look up your machine then there is sub-topics

JIM, IF YOU ARE USING 1 500GB DRIVE, UOU MAUS FIRST INSTALL IT WITH YOUR OS DISK AS A NEW VOLUME, THEN COPY YOUR DATA TO IT. IF YOU ARE INSTALLING 2 500GB DRIVES A A SINGLE DRIVE RAID SYSTEM, INSTALL THE FIRST DRIVE, THEN AFTER SETUP ADD THE SECOND DRIVE, THEN USE DISK MANAGER TO CONFIGURE THE RAID. HOPE I AM UNDERSTANDING YOUR ISSUE OK. THANKS

Airport Extreme is it you have to ask Apple for Otherwise Ethernet Cable

Is bad if power Buton is broken. i got me a Apple monitor which has also a power Button,and some Keyboard have Power Button. Have here a old apple keyboard with it,and a small Keyboard i do with my Laptop with me has also a power Button. Thats may help you till you have changed them on your Mac. NOW,a Keyboard you could get from a friend for a Hour to try if he starts,otherwise is a other Problem

Do you have Power in the socked? If yes,and Cable is plugged in well then it could be the Power button gone. I have an addition Button on my Apple monitor which would help me.

should be a diagram on your manual, should be available to download if its not on your hard drive

Right click on desktop click on arrenge icon by name than select show desktop icon

The spinning wheel is an indicator that your machine is so overloaded it cannot pay attention to any user input. Occasional appearance is acceptable; chronic appearance is not. It could mean you have insufficient memory in your computer. It could mean you have a bad spot on your hard drive. It could mean you have insufficient free space left on your hard drive. It could mean you have corrupted software. It could mean you have a bad browser plugin. It could even be a symptom of a bug in Flash taking down your browser.
In System Preferences / Accounts, create a new user. Log in as that new user. Access some maps, hotels, etc. If the wheel comes up, the problem is likely to be hardware related. If it doesn't, the problem is likely to be plugin related.

You need a expert. Thank you.

WPA is supported by both the Airport Extreme and Mac OS versions 10.3.
It's possible you need to change your encryption specification on the Netgear to "Shared Key" instead of the default "Open."

Your machine is a "Gigabit Ethernet" model PowerMac G4.
The power supply for this model is 661-2332 or equivalent. It has a 22-pin connector.