Hi,
I'm having big issues with an iMac g4 I recently upgraded the HDD, RAM and PRAM battery in and thought you guys could help.
I installed a new HDD and 2 gb ram in it yesterday, applied the thermal paste and what not. I then booted into the installer and began to install OS X Leopard. This hung with about 1 hour to go. I turned it off after letting it hang for about an hour. I then tried again, this time I think it had a Kernel Panic ( black lines with white text on the screen, didn't take a photo though dammit). Tried one more time and this time it froze at the choose boot disk screen.
Since then powering on simply turns on the fan and I think I can hear the hdd spinning but nothing on the display. If I hold on the power button I get one long tone. I tried all possible configurations of ram but this hasn't helped. The only thing I haven't tried is putting the old HDD back in.
The red LED on the logic board still lights up so I believe it is still getting power. I have tried the logic board reset button on the underside of the mac.
Any help with this problem would be much appreciated as I am stuck and I just bought it for a toy so am a little gutted I've possibly ruined it.
Thanks,
Jayden
PS its a 1.25 GHz 17" imac G4 USB 2.0
I'm having big issues with an iMac g4 I recently upgraded the HDD, RAM and PRAM battery in and thought you guys could help.
I installed a new HDD and 2 gb ram in it yesterday, applied the thermal paste and what not. I then booted into the installer and began to install OS X Leopard. This hung with about 1 hour to go. I turned it off after letting it hang for about an hour. I then tried again, this time I think it had a Kernel Panic ( black lines with white text on the screen, didn't take a photo though dammit). Tried one more time and this time it froze at the choose boot disk screen.
Since then powering on simply turns on the fan and I think I can hear the hdd spinning but nothing on the display. If I hold on the power button I get one long tone. I tried all possible configurations of ram but this hasn't helped. The only thing I haven't tried is putting the old HDD back in.
The red LED on the logic board still lights up so I believe it is still getting power. I have tried the logic board reset button on the underside of the mac.
Any help with this problem would be much appreciated as I am stuck and I just bought it for a toy so am a little gutted I've possibly ruined it.
Thanks,
Jayden
PS its a 1.25 GHz 17" imac G4 USB 2.0
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