g4 wont wake up
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- CX
I have an older g4 and a sony trinitron monitor. I hit the spacebar to wake it up because it was on sleep mode and I can not wake up the monitor or computer ( I dont know which one) for anything. I have tried restarting and turning off the monitor. I always say on the mnonitor. something like, "Monitor is in PowerSave mode".
Anyone experienced this?
- stewart0
do you hear your G4 ?
- CX0
I'll have to go home and listen closely but possibly no. It happened New Years Eve and I just said screw it for the time being.
- stewart0
do you have it plugged into the mains?
- BonSeff0
next to the power plug in the back of the machine is a reset button. maybe there was a power surge and it tripped? dunno
- CX0
Maybe the cord wiggled out. Ill try that reset button in the back also. I didn't know there was one.
- unvisible0
hey i had this problem.
if you open up your machine.
there is a little black button next
to that battery next to your board.
press that shit.
you should be okay.
- unknown0
exactly what unvisible said. mine did the same thing a couple of days ago and i had to open up the machine and look for that little reset button. i belive it happened from a power outage.
- CX0
Damn, I think my computer is hosed. I pressed that little black button and it shut down but when I start it up again it does the same thing. I also messed with all the cords. The second time I shut it down and started it up again the main hard drive started clicking pretty bad.
I don't know what to do with this jalopy.
- waynepixel0
sounds Like you have a fuck harddisk.
- rasp0
its not just your connector that fits from the monitor cable to the mac isit? try that. or try a different monitor on you g4 or vice versa
- CX0
Ill have to try a different monitor. I wonder if a faulty hard disk could be a cause. It is my start up disk also.
I searched and this seems to be a problem (with trinitron monitors) with no definite answers on Dells forums.
- CX0
*bump
- GreedoLives0
i got a G4 cube at home and that won't wake up if you let it sleep for longer periods of time (1-2 hours +). the only way to resuscitate it is to use the restart button...or the power button on the (apple) monitor.
- BXCAR0
rattling harddisk?
Chick - chick - chick?
that kinda soundthe bitch is acting up
forget about it.
- BXCAR0
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I'd nearly say its not addictive but I do have to quit it from time to time cause I'm not leaving the house anymore, not picking up the phone etc.After a while its no fun for me and it gives me very lightish headaches that hang around all day long.
- ilmarine0
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- BXCAR0
haha needless to say im smoking one big fat bahama joint
- CX0
wrong thread?
- CX0
So here's the final story. I plugged in another monitor and there was a flashing ? mark. I put the system CD in and the main harddrive no longer showed up at all. So I installed the system software on what was the second drive and set that as the start up disk. Once I had the OS running again the main HD showed back up for some reason. I was able to copy my old apps from it. It locked up 3 times doing simple stuff like throwing stuff away off the old HD. I've used Disk Warrior before so I guess it's a physical problem. I guess thats why my computer still locks up a lot even though OSX is supposed to be very stable. I guess Trinitron monitors just wont wake up if there's a problem.