[vox-tech] no boot on G4 laptop

[Cam Ellison]

When you say it never boots, do you mean that you get the little
spinning rainbow, and it never stops? =20

Alternatively, do you get some other stuff going on, and then a blank
screen?

Does he have the OS X CDs?


Cheers

Cam

* Jan W (jcwynholds@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi all:
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> I am a mac-clueless-type, and a friend of mine has a G4 laptop that refus=
es to
> boot.  He says the problem is with the display, but the LCD is just reall=
y dim,
> there are images that come up.
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> The problem:
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> Power up the machine, the little apple comes on screen, with the little
> spinning icon-thing to let you know it's doing something.  It never boots=
=2E  He
> even tried doing an 'option/x' (or maybe it's open-apple/x) to force a bo=
ot,
> but no dice.
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> Is he dead in the water, or is there some other thing I can suggest to hi=
m?
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> jan
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