Thank you, almeath!

I've asked a bunch of people selling sawtooth G4s on eBay whether they're willing to sell me their original restore CD. Although it seems that most G4s ended up shipping with MacOS…

It doesn't work with the ROM from 9.0 I tried it.

Joo think it would work with the ROM from OS 9.0 Sawtooth CD?

Thanks for all the responses. [] ]'> The ROM on my B&W G3 CD is 1.4, and on the 'retail' CD it is 1.6. Unfortunately neither one will boot my G4. When running th…

I tihnk the ROM would do the trick here, hm? so generic OS8.6 install + 2.5.1 ROM would boot the sawtooth?

Got the 2.5.1 ROM? I searched hi and lo for it

According to Mactracker, the sawtooth did come with 8.6 originally, but later came with Mac OS 9.0. It also says it needs Mac OS ROM 2.5.1. I would love a sawtooth running 8.6 It …

Is there any way to get 8.6 running on the G4 using these CDs or am I basically screwed without the original? Click to expand... AFAIK, that's a version unique to the sawtooths…

Hm? My Sawtooth came with 9.02 (which crashes left, right and centre, BTW).

I recently purchased a first generation "Sawtooth" G4 - 400mhz model with AGP graphics. It was refurbished and came with MacOS 10.3 pre-installed, but the original MacOS 8.6 instal…

If you have another mac with firewire, you can also try booting it into target disk mode and running disk utility on the other mac. One thing to try if you get a boot-able OSX ins…

Ok, thanks. I was wondering about the hard drive, but I wasn't sure because the older Macs actually tell you the HDD is corrupted by displaying the floppy disk with a question mar…

Sounds like a bad HD to me as well. 75% of the time a bad OS access generates that type of behavior. I would try both the CD and Firewire drive methods mentioned above. I had a TiB…

Did you try booting the thing from CD or FireWire or anything? Could just be a corrupted installation or a bad hard drive. I would've checked those first. As for capacitors, yes, …

Hi, My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel made up of lines fac…

Good to hear you got it going. I second what Ben said - before you buy anything, try reseating the keyboard cable, or failing that, cleaning the contacts.

Are you sure the keyboard is broken? You could of just knocked the card bay into place that time.

As a 2400c owner and lover, this is quite cool to see. Thanks for putting them up! TBird

I did what you suggested LCGuy, but it still only plays the "death chimes" Edit: I went a little further and found out the PCMCIA card bay was loose, that fixed my "death chime" i…

Have you tried booting it up in a "barebones" configuration? By that, I mean, only the onboard RAM, no HDD, no expansion bay device, no video out/ethernet card, no PC cards, etc. I…

I would have looked at the Sad Mac, but none shows on the screen. My HDD is perfectly fine, but thanks for your help anyway.

Take heart. If you looked at the code under SM you may have seen that it was once more a result of the commonest cause of Sad Mac: nnnnnn0F, indicating a software fault. Hardware…

I bought this thing on eBay as a dead curiosity, but was determined to fix it. So, after replacing a bad fuse and making extra sure that all cards were seated onto their connectors…

I have this PowerBook 1400c/166 that has been working great until recently, when I turned it on and I got the infamous "death chimes" I went through the system, dismantled the e…