Powermac G4 dual 450 front bezel buttons....

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Thade

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Mar 19, 2004

• #1

Yo. I just picked up a used G4 dual 450. Overall, it's in great shape and I'm very happy with the performance in Panther with 512MB ram 🙂
Anyhoo, can anyone tell me the function of the 2 buttons under the power button? The button on the left is an outie and the one on the right is an innie. The right button may be broken but I can't find any good close up pics to verify. Plz help g4 owners...pics??

TIA

Jeff

 

blue&whiteman

macrumors 65816

• Mar 19, 2004

• #2

I have the same 2 buttons on my blue and white G3. the left one is for emergency boot (if your system freezes). the right one is a programmers button. only time I have ever needed to use the right one was having to hold it in when I upgraded to the G4 cpu on its first boot.

hope this cleared up everything for you.

 

Mord

macrumors G4

• Mar 19, 2004

• #3

reset and programmers buttun

the innie is the programers (dont press it)

the outie is the reset

 

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Thade

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Mar 19, 2004

• #4

TY!!

Jeff