I have this old Mac (Pro?) that I've found. When it boots it just shows a cancel sign after spinning for a while. I don't have the keyboard for it. So I bought a Snow Leopard Install Disk and tried to open the disk drive by holding down mouse 1 while booting, and put the disk in. I then rebooted but it wouldn't boot from the disk, it just loaded OS X and then the cancel sign. I also read somewhere that you can hold "C" down with any keyboard while booting for it to boot from CD, but that didn't work either.
Do you have any ideas how I can fix this Mac up?
Hold option before the Apple logo appears.
[QUOTE=ifaux;25236221]Hold option before the Apple logo appears.[/QUOTE]
Aka Alt
just get a new hard drive and reinstall, if it's a PowerPC you can only install up to Tiger I believe.
Will this work without a Mac keyboard?
Also, this is the computer:
[IMG]http://www.bootsector.com/images/products/apple-powermac-quicksilver-733.jpg[/IMG]
Flag is Command on non Apple keyboards, but yes it should work
Thanks for the reply, I'll try that a little later.
Hold ALT, not the flag...
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I have tried this on my G4 and can confirm that it werks
I'll try both :keke:
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After holding alt with the disk in, it shows a screen with a refresh button, then a HDD and then a right-pointing arrow.
I would assume the CD should of showed up here and I could of clicked on it then the arrow to boot from that.
Hmm....Maybe the disc drive is broken?
Can you take a few picture of the screen?
I guess you can't install Snow Leopard on this because it's an PowerMac G4 (QuickSilver, 2001), so I can't find any retail install disks for Tiger or anything later, so I guess I can't really fix up this Mac.
Oh, that's right....Leopard was the latest version to support a PPC processor
Your Mac won't boot? Looks like you'll need to buy a new one.
/unhelpful advice
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