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#Macbook g4 memory door install
Your best bet for installing 10.5 would be doing so from a firewire drive or from the install DVD.Item: 113898254423 Apple iMac G5 All In One Memory RAM Cover. There ARE some methods for getting some specific models to do so however they often come with mostly mixed results. I would find it odd that the failure occurred after reseating the RAM but it could be a coincidence.Īlso, PowerPC based Macs (G3, G4, G5) typically will not boot from USB devices. You did mention that an external display had no video as well so I would lean towards a logic board failure. If both of these had no effect I would start looking at it as a hardware failure, with either the logic board or LCD/display assembly to blame.
#Macbook g4 memory door mac
PMU resets typically have results when the Mac simply isn't power on at all however I've seen them resolve "no video" issues as well in the past. You didn't mention the exact model of your PowerBook G4 but this Apple KB article should help you identify the correct process for your computer. If the issue persists with each change then RAM is unlikely to be the culprit.Īssuming RAM isolation has no effect I would try resetting the PMU. See if there is any change in behavior after each of these changes. Try installing the DIMM from slot 1 into slot 2 and vice versa. Reinstall the removed DIMM and remove the other DIMM, try powering on the Mac. Remove one of the RAM DIMMs, try powering on the Mac. It's good that you've tried reseating the RAM however I would also try to isolate both DIMMs. I don't see mention of whether or not the screen gets backlight, only that "it doesn't turn on", so I'm writing this assuming that the computer chimes but the screen remains black. To me this sounds like a couple of possibilities. I would respond with this as a comment but I don't have that option, assuming because my reputation hasn't yet reached 50. Are there any steps I can take to isolate whether or not it is the logic board? Is there any easy way to fix or replace it? I have previously thought about it being a Logic Board issue and this seems to be agreed by first answer I got. Any other ideas on what I could try or what could be going wrong here? (Disk Utility said that it was corrupt and I repeaired it in Disk Utility as well.) I do not need the files that were previously stored on this computer. I have the Leopard install image on a USB drive, and the hard drive is repaired. I am now at a point where I have the computer where it boots up, chimes, but the screen never turns on. That test may be unreliable, however, as I have not confirmed that the display itself works as I do not have the appropriate cables. I also tried hooking it up to a Mac display and that did not work either.
I even tried removing the main battery and letting the backup battery charge over night snd that also had no effect on the starting of the computer. Neither of these had any effect on the computer at all. I have tried all of the obvious including resetting PRAM and resetting PMU.
I also attempted hooking the computer up to another Mac via FireWire and repairing the hard drive.
No backlighting occurs and pixels remain dead.) This is strange because before I removed the RAM, the screen turned on but stopped at the blue screen. (By this I do mean that no part of the screen is lit. I removed the RAM and started it and the computer beeps as it should when it doesn't find the RAM when I put the RAM back in, the computer makes the chiming noise, but the screen does not turn on anymore. I then opened up the RAM removal door and saw that there appeared to be slight decay to one of the sticks of RAM. So I restarted it again and the same thing happened several times. I left it for a while and it never finished booting. When it broke originally, I was restarting it after changing the boot logo in the system files and when it rebooted, it just stopped at the bright blue screen that I'm pretty sure comes right before the grey apple logo on a grey background. I owned it while it was working for about 1 and a half years. My PowerBook G4 is broken and has been for a couple of months now.
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