MAC G-4 won't get past start up.
I start it up and it gets to the Windows initializing phase and never completes. Just loads hours if you let it.
Called the Shop they said to install the start up disk, the one you load into the computer when you get it out of the box. Can't find it anywhere.
Maybe they have one and I can at least pay them to do it. He said if you run the disk and it does it a few weeks later again it means the hard drive is on the way out.
Where can someone have a Computer professionally refubished?
Also is there a new mac to be had where you can transfer memory, files and photos from a G-4 to a new model?
Called the Shop they said to install the start up disk, the one you load into the computer when you get it out of the box. Can't find it anywhere.
Maybe they have one and I can at least pay them to do it. He said if you run the disk and it does it a few weeks later again it means the hard drive is on the way out.
Where can someone have a Computer professionally refubished?
Also is there a new mac to be had where you can transfer memory, files and photos from a G-4 to a new model?
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The new I-macs will download anything on the old one to the new one... Just follow the steps.. 0 -
You can connect 2 macs together with firewire cable and boot one in "disk" mode which presents it to the other as just a disk so you can copy files, etc.
AFAIK the G-4 was the PPC processor still, so Windows wouldn't run on it.0 -
I've personally have had a lot of problems with computers using older operating systems. Then trying to update them to the newer versions. Unless you can have some pro who knows what they are doing, and are willing to do it Inexpensively , it ain't hardly worth it.
Last MAC laptop I had, went south on me at just over a year old. I finally found a local guy who would work on it. He said the only thing that he could do was to put in a new motherboard at $300+. I took the sucker, ( the computer, not the tech ), out in the forest and shot it full of holes.0 -
I love fixing computers with bullets!![:D]
I have also repaired washers, dryers, microwaves and coffee makers with bullets! I fix 'em forever with a twenty round magazine of .308.
Works every time, makes me feel great also![:)]
Nothing more satisfying than fixing it yourself!0 -
quote:Originally posted by mrbruce
The new I-macs will download anything on the old one to the new one... Just follow the steps..
I have a lot of AOL formatted files with email information on them I want to transfer and my I-photos. If that can be done that would be great. I called the shop and am waiting for a call back0
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