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I purchased a G4 quicksilver from a thrift shop and found it had no hard drive in it I have installed a second hand known good hard drive that i used “macdrive” on a pc to format into the G4 and powered it up, i get a “boing” and a face on the monitor. I am unable to figuire out how to open/eject the optical(CD) drive. Being a PC user and dabler to a small extent I would like to use this machine to learn the apple as i am unfamilier with the way of the mac and its terms
To open the optical drive, make sure you have a mac usb mouse connected and hold down the top of the mouse when you turn on the machine and hold. After 10-20 seconds the drive should open. Did you format the drive on a different computer? If so check the RAM of the new computer and make sure it is good.
Mark - Leopard’s system requirements are 867 MHz or higher. Is your processor 866 or 867? If it won’t take Leopard, it could be due to a lack of minimum RAM. It requires 512MB of RAM at minimum. If that’s not the answer, then you’d want to try to get a Tiger installation disc. Personally, that’s the direction I’d go. Leopard on that machine may not be the best choice for performance. Granted, you’d be a little more “up to date” but the overall performance of the system would be mediocre at best. I have one of those guys running Tiger for fun and it’s pretty zippy.
