A couple of days ago I started having serious problems with my PowerMac G4.
The first thing that happened was that it sort of froze. The clock kept ticking, and I could move the mouse, but all apps gave a spinning beachball of death.
So I did a hard restart.
When the machine booted again, the clock was set to December 1969, which it gave me a warning about, and I set it to the correct time. I figured my battery is dead. More troubling was the fact that I couldn't connect (via wired ethernet) to my network. In fact, the light on the router that shows a physical link with a machine didn't light up.
Since then I've zapped the PRAM and rebooted a few times. I believe one of these times the clock change stuck, but the rest of the time it went back to 1969.
It also was taking a loooooong time to boot, I would guess 5 minutes. It spent a long time on an empty blue screen.
I just tried installing an ethernet PCI card, thinking that my battery and my ethernet port might have both died at the same time somehow, but now I have a new problem. Before Finder was done starting up, the machine just powered off all of a sudden. After that I couldn't get it to boot at all. I'd press the power button and the light would flicker but it would just die again instantly. I let it sit for about an hour and tried again. It spent a minute or so trying to boot and then powered off again. Now I'm having the same problems starting it up.
Any ideas?
The first thing that happened was that it sort of froze. The clock kept ticking, and I could move the mouse, but all apps gave a spinning beachball of death.
So I did a hard restart.
When the machine booted again, the clock was set to December 1969, which it gave me a warning about, and I set it to the correct time. I figured my battery is dead. More troubling was the fact that I couldn't connect (via wired ethernet) to my network. In fact, the light on the router that shows a physical link with a machine didn't light up.
Since then I've zapped the PRAM and rebooted a few times. I believe one of these times the clock change stuck, but the rest of the time it went back to 1969.
It also was taking a loooooong time to boot, I would guess 5 minutes. It spent a long time on an empty blue screen.
I just tried installing an ethernet PCI card, thinking that my battery and my ethernet port might have both died at the same time somehow, but now I have a new problem. Before Finder was done starting up, the machine just powered off all of a sudden. After that I couldn't get it to boot at all. I'd press the power button and the light would flicker but it would just die again instantly. I let it sit for about an hour and tried again. It spent a minute or so trying to boot and then powered off again. Now I'm having the same problems starting it up.
Any ideas?