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Big silver padlock on startup: What does it mean?

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h4lp m3

macrumors 6502a
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I got this old school G4 and went to go start it up and there's a big ol silver lock on the screen... Wait about 15 seconds and the Finder guy face 😉 will flash for a millisecond and it will unlock... then it will lock itself in another 15 seconds. 😕 WTF?!?! 😕😕
 
h4lp m3 said:
I understand, but mine doesn't have any field to enter anything in! The padlock flashes from locked to unlocked.
What is that supposed to be http://google.com I don't know why it's censored. 😕😕
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Did you try resetting PRAM as suggested by the links above?

When powering on, hold Cmd+Option+P+R. (Tricky to do with one hand on a qwerty keyboard, but I just did it the other day). Keep holding until you hear the startup sound a SECOND time. You should then be able to log in normally.

BTW, the way you would have gotten the field to enter something in was to hold option I believe.
 
r0k said:
Did you try resetting PRAM as suggested by the links above?

When powering on, hold Cmd+Option+P+R. (Tricky to do with one hand on a qwerty keyboard, but I just did it the other day). Keep holding until you hear the startup sound a SECOND time. You should then be able to log in normally.

BTW, the way you would have gotten the field to enter something in was to hold option I believe.
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Can sone one tell me what else I can do if control commands dont work I held down all tabs and nothing happened what do I do next if nothing works
 
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Remove one bank of memory and restart. Shut down and replace the memory. If it is an Open Firmware password, that should clear it.
 
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