20 Most Recent Apple iMac G5 Desktop Questions & Answers

probably bad, might be disk, ram or logic board. Try resetting pram and then try rebooting in safe mode by holding down letter s on start up. Try disk or drive select by holding down option key on start up. Make some effort, look up key commands on google and apple support.

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that is early indicator that screen is fragmenting only answer is to get a new monitor

Your DVD wont show on the desktop unless a DVD is inserted. Which means that the DVD is either upside down, or simply isn't recognized by the reader. There should be an eject button on your keyboard. Hold that for 3 to 5 seconds and see if it ejects. If not, look for a tiny hole in the front of your case and insert a paper clip and push in until the DVD ejects. Some Macs have no hole and require a shop to extract the DVD for you. Another trick is to start up the PC while holding down the C key during bootup, which will make the PC try to boot off of the DVD. At which point the DVD should eject as the system asks for a proper boot cd.

You cannot install Windows on a Macintosh with a PowerPC processor.

just connect both computers to the same router/hub. if mac is working then windows should work as well. on a wired network in windows xp and beyond, there is no set-up required. if it is not working, then perhaps you using a crossover cable (meant to connect 2 computers directly) instead of a regular ethernet cable.

At this point you are much better off installing a USB wireless antennae than spending money on an Airport card, cracking open the iMac, and installing it.

USB wireless adapters are cheap, plentiful, and have more capabilities than the generation of Airport cards that were made for G5 iMacs.

To eject a CD/DVD that is not recognized by your computer, boot up while holding down the eject button on your keyboard, and continue to hold down eject until the disk ejects.

If this does not work, hold down your mouse button while booting up in the same way.

If neither of these work, open Terminal and type in the following:

drutil tray eject

If your disc does still not eject, your optical drive likely needs repair.

try a reboot and hold the left mouse button down during the startup. You can also hold the spacebar during startup. This should force eject the drive

Why not "browse" the Apple Store:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini

to find the suggested retail prices?

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Use Dr. Web live CD! It has a great built in file recovery tool

You can try copying the disc to the computer and then running from there.

Before that though you should make sure you've got all the latest updates from apple via the Apple Software Update.

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It sounds like your hard rive has failed. You could if you can ask someone for a loan of a disk utility such as disk warrior to check the hard drive. If it has failed have a look at the following websites on how to replace it

http://www.dtgeeks.com/index.php/features/tutorialview/imac_g5_hard_drive_replacement/

or

manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacg5_17inch_HardDrive.pdf

Check the cable of your speakers or
Download another Music Player

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try another keyboard.

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Ar this is a regular problem i get when people try to install Windows XP or Linux on Boot camp e.t.c.
What's happened is Linux has Tampered with the boot up files and now it won't be able to boot into Linux or Leopard.
What you need to do is insert you Leopard Install disk that came with you iMac Into the Disk Drive, the disk/disks are grey and may be two CDs or 1 DVD.
Restart the iMac and the moment you hear the chimes go off when it boots up, Hold down C on the keyboard. The boot disk for leopard will then boot up,
From here follow the instructions and if your lucky you may be able to upgrade, if not, go through the system utility and repair disk permissions e.t.c.
If nothing works, You will have to do a clean install,
But you may be able to recover a thew images and mp3 files with a great bit of software i like to use, http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
You do have to pay for it, and you will need to install it on macbook e.t.c. if you have one in order for it to work If your confused there is a number of guides out there on that website or on google
Hope i have been of any help
Regards

Try to go into your system setup in control panel and roll back the driver you just updated back to the one it had, and disable automatic updates to that device.