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I can't get into my G4 mac! HELP!

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sophia_sugah

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Apr 14, 2004
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I have a G4 mac, it's not panther its jaguar, but i need some help and im hoping somebody will know something! I havnt had any problems with it until now. When i turned it on the other day it started up, got to the loading screen (grey with a clock and apple logo) and then didnt change. Ive tried all sorts but it just sticks at the loading screen and doesent boot up fully. I've been staring at a grey screen with a clock ticking round and round for over a week now. I need the computer for my work so i really need to sort this, does anybody know whats happening with my mac? I'm getting worried :(
 
help!

Iv tried that and its saying something about - mach_init failed, errno 2. Do you know what that means? :confused:
 
Thats not good. init is the first process ran after the kernal starts, methinks. Try booting off you install disks.
 
confused.

By the way, Ive thought that if i can't get it back, maybe i would need to reinstall jaguar? :confused: Just as a test i put the cd in the drive, it didnt attempt to reinstall. I'm still completely lost, i would appreciate any help, thanx.
 
Iv tried pressing C when powering up, apparantly that boots from cd, no response though.
 
Well if your hardware test cd dosn't boot when you hold C, then there is something hardware wrong... I am not sure if i can help. any one else.

I am not sure is it c or apple-c....?
 
Ok, the hardware test passed on all counts. So, no problems there. I think that the problem is that the jaguar upgrade cd is not the original. Iv booted up with the 10.1 original version, that works fine, il install from there. I think its all sorted. Thanks for the help.
 
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