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Dec 10, 2008I have a Mac Mini set of installation disks, will these work on a tower G4 or do I need to buy a new version of Leopard?
Also can I use any generic IDE hard disk to install OSX to?
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OS X :: Mac Tower Randomly Wants To Shut Down?
Jan 12, 2010We have a Mac Pro Tower Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 Mhz. with Apple HD 30 inch Display. OS X 10.5.8 with no Raid card. 4 GB ram, 300 GB hard drive, with only 30 GB left to use. A random message comes up asking me: Are you sure you want to shut down your computer? Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shutdown. I ran Disk Utility off the CD, repaired permissions. Rebooted computer and the message re-appeared after it loaded the OS X. I removed all startup process from 3rd party software. Turned off Bluetooth settings, as I have a wired keyboard and Mouse. What could be happening? No new hardware or software has been installed for 1 year. All OS X updates are current. I attempted to look in the console logs but some of the information is foreign to me.
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Nov 7, 2007I updated my G3 today to 10.3 finally and everything was working great until I updated software to 10.3.9 now my wireless isn't detecting any signals while it was working before the update. I'm thinking a driver was broken any ideas. It's a linksys wireless adapter I do believe.
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I started up again, and whilst the light in the power switch on the front panel illuminated, and a short 'apple boing' noise came on, it just shut down immediately after. Having left the computer untouched until the following weekend (today) the same order of events has unfolded. two minutes for the first go until unannounced shutdown, and then progressively shorter amounts of power. Whilst this isn't a critical piece of hardware for me, it does hold some useful data.
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PowerPC :: G4 Tower Power Supply Dead?
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1) Reformat and use the 5 year old MacBook Pro (free)
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3) MacBookAir 11 inch ($1100)
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