No power G4

[graphicdough]

Short story. I have a G4 Dual 450. It ran fine, then I unplugged it. When reconnecting it did not turn on. I tried a few suggestions made to me and nothing worked. well as far as pushing a few buttons that is. Then out of the blue one day about 2 weeks later I tried and amazingly it turned on. Ran fine. I then had to move it to make room for the computer and once again it does not turn on.
In short ... any suggestion on what could be wrong?
Thanks

 

[72930]

Just a guess here: Maybe there is a dodgy power connection and it has to be wiggled in to work

 

[graphicdough]

No thats not it.

 

[SuperCompu2]

Replace the half-sized AA battery inside the case. This might help to power it on every time instead of once in a while. Aged Macs can have these die out after a while, and it needs to have a constant 3.7v I believe to run smoothly.

Just a suggestion, hope everything works out for you.

PS. you can find them at RadioShack.

 

[CanadaRAM]

^^^ What Supercompu said

 

[graphicdough]

Thanks. That was my next step. Guess I just needed conformation.