20 Most Recent Apple PowerBook G4 Mac Notebook - Page 5 Questions & Answers

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Try another display. You can connect your notebook to external display and now you can test if the problem was with your graphic card, or with the logic board! ok

Try putting in your OSX cd and holding "C" when it boots up. The problem could be with the board or it might be just a problem with the screen.

After it boots try seeing if you can get it to make sounds by pushing the volume buttons. If it makes the "click" noise then it is the screen that needs fixing.

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Try starting your mac from it's install disc.
1) First turn off your computer.
2) Then restart it, right when you push the power button to turn it on, press the option key down and hold it
3) pressing the option key will bring to a screen where you can choose your startup disk. Usually, you'll see your Macintosh HD available to startup from. Don't choose anything yet.
4) Insert your install disc into the CD slot.
5) wait a couple of seconds and then clock on your install disc as your startup option.
6) after clicking on the disc, go to the menubar and click on Utilities then disk utility.
7)once the disk utility app is open hit "verify disk permissions"
8) after you've "verified disk permission" hit "repair disk permissions"
- this might take a long time depending how much you've actually done this (which it's good to do every other month or so to keep your mac running smoothly). things might seem to freeze up as well, but it's the mac trying to verify and repair broken permissions on your computer. Don't that's normal.
9) after you have repaired the disk permission, reboot your mac by quitting disk utility and then choosing the startup disk as your normal macintosh HD. That should do the trick. If not, tell us what has changed.

I would recomend a new screen

If you do not care about any of the files on the computer, all you have to do is reformat the drive. This will wipe the drive clean and allow you to reinstall the Operating System and essentially have a brand new computer.
Insert disc 1 that came with the computer and hold down the option key to bring up the boot menu. Double click on the CD icon to boot from the CD. Once your computer has booted from the CD, click on the Utilities menu bar and open up Disk Utility. Once this is open, choose the internal hard drive most likely named "Macintosh HD" and then simply reformat it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Once this is done, restart the machine with the CD still inserted and install the operating system that came with the computer. Once this is all done, run the computer like normal and the system will be all yours.

Your harddrive may be failing.
Insert the CD that came with your computer originally and hold option (alt) when you turn on your computer. Then click on the CD icon and then the arrow below it. Once you have booted from the CD, open up the utilities menu bar and choose Disk Utility. Click on "Repair Disk" and let the program run, if the disk is not able to be fixed, you need to backup your data and then replace the hard drive.
There are plenty step by step guides on youtube. All you need is a 2.5 notebook hard drive and a Torque screwdriver set and you are good to go.

First off do you know what version of your OS you have? Once I have that information I can assist you further.
Thank you,
Lee

smelling your **** will help.

Go to
Finder » Applications » System Preferences

In the window that opens, select 'Displays' under Hardware

Here you can select a range of Resolutions, including some that state stretched. You can try a few of these (clicking on them will automatically change the resolution (the screen may go blue for a second in the process)). Most likely, the resolution you have currently selected will have a (stretched) option that may resolve your issue.

If you are not using the AC adapter (you are using only the battery), then the battery may be dead - simply replace the battery. If you are plugged into the wall, and the light on the power cord, where it meets the computer, is green, the unit is receiving power. If the unit is receiving power and it will not boot at all, then either the motherboard or the hard drive is most likely problem. You can replace the board, but it may end up being more expensive on an older G4 than it is worth. Once you are able to determine if the unit is receiving power, the only thing you can really do from there is take it to a repair shop and have them perform a test on the power supply, hard drive and/or the motherboard to see which one of those is causing the problem. If the hard drive is fine, you will most likely be able to recover your files.

What I would suggest is reseating the airport card as it may be the card has come loose or the cable is not connected properly. The following support page on the apple website will tell you how to do it.

support.apple.com/kb/HT2617

Failing that you will probably have to buy an new airport card or a wireless usb adaptor. You should be able to pick one up from ebay fairly cheaply.

Hope this helps.

Yes.
You should use the Disc Utility in Macintosh >Hard Drive> Applications>Utilities>Disc Utility to format the new externql to Mac OS Extended Journalrd or non-Journaled is fine.
For video applications I prefer non-Journaled.

Select the drive on the left side of the window to highlight it.
Select the Erase tab. (Top of window)
Select VolumeFormat: and Name:
In Secutity options select Zero Out Data, hit Erase (middle of window) and wait for formatting to complete.
Could be an hour or two depending on disc size.

It may be as simple as turning up the Brightness.

Apple has a guide on resetting the administrator password here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh655.html This one is for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) but the method is the same for newer versions. In older versions the only difference is that the reset password option mentioned in step 3 is located in the installer menu instead of the utilities menu.

It's called a Power Management Unit (PMU) Reset. Here are Apple's steps:

1. If the computer is on, turn it off.
2. Reset the power manager by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-Power on the keyboard. Do not press the fn (Function) key while using this combination of keystrokes.
3. Wait 5 seconds.
4. Press the Power button to restart the computer.

Safari menu > Reset Safari.. it will bring up a menu check the box or boxes that you want and click reset at the bottom.

Sounds like the logic board cord is loose to me. Get it checked out at the store.

When you press the power button do you hear a chime. If you do your monitor cable is probably loose. If you do not hear a chime there is a physical problem with the computer and you should make and appointment with the apple store to have it checked out.

Try to manually update your Java Environment. go to www.java.com and follow the instructions on the web page.