I've just recently purchased a G4 450mhz from ebay and on the advert it did say it was already preloaded with os 10 tiger, but when i switch it on it stays on a blank grey screen for a few minutes then displays a switching mac face icon and a question mark.
Whats the problem can someone please help me i'm an absolute novice with macs
you have the original cds right??
turn it on and hold C to boot from it
check the disk w/ disk utility, reinstall OS X
doesn't Tiger require a FireWire capable machine?!
Yes it has 2 firewire ports at the back
its a G4 450mhz 512mb ram and 80gb harddrive
I'll try that thanks.
Tiger on a G4 ... :slant:
Does it really run on it ?
Edit: Thanks for information igo, does it work well ?
LOL... chazoul, I'm running Tiger on my iBook G4 !! it DOES run.. 
oh.. but yeh, mine's 1.83Ghz so that might make some difference.
I've installed Tiger on worse computers. It seems that your system folder hasn't been blessed. Load from a restore CD and select your Tiger folder as a startup volume. If it doesn't see it, you have another problem rectified by a wipe, format, and reinstall (hopefully). Verify the disk for errors using Disk Utility and if it has problems, consider getting a good Seagate drive (but make sure you have the right cable setup).
thanks, I only bought it because it was cheap and i've always wanted to use a mac just to see if it is worth buying a more expensive one
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