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freezing and flashing start up G4 Why?

Patth9

Patth9

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Jun 28, 2007
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The Mac freezes sporadically, even if I leave the side door open and have an external fan blowing.

When I starts the G4 up a flashing face/folder and question mark switch back and forth about 6 times before the center Apple shows, if I'm fortunate.

Trying to keep this G4 MDD Apple Model No:M8570 going.


Patt
 
poiihy

poiihy

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Aug 22, 2014
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What kind of freeze? Complete freeze where even mouse cursor cant move or less freeze where you can move the mouse and stuff but you get stuck at beachball when you try to do something?

If it's the latter then it's probably bad HDD. If it's the former then it may be bad RAM.
 
redheeler

redheeler

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Oct 17, 2014
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Patth9 said:
When I starts the G4 up a flashing face/folder and question mark switch back and forth about 6 times before the center Apple shows, if I'm fortunate.
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This is usually a symptom of looking for a non-existant booting partition. System Preferences > Startup Disk, select the boot drive and restart.

If the problem continues to occur afterward it's likely a failing hard drive. This would also cause system freezes (with beachballs, as poiihy said).
 
Patth9

Patth9

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Original poster
Jun 28, 2007
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Thanks redheeler. Apologies for the very late reply.
 
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