G4 powerbook Titanium 400

i have got a second hand G4 powerbook Titanium 400, but i think the hard drive was wiped by the last owner. how do i install an OS, as i think the cd drive is playing up, help.

if the CD drive is not working properly, you'd need to use external FireWire
optical drive or install from another Mac with FireWre port by using "target mode":
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
put another Mac in target mode and insert OS install CD/DVD, connect it to the PowerBook
then turn on the PowerBook and select OS disc as startup drive by holding
"option" key, then select PowerBook's hard drive as a destination drive in the OS installer (be sue not to install on target Mac's hard drive)
try at your own risk though

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Anybody want to try and take a crack at this? It would really help put some juice back in these older G4 PowerBooks, because there is no video card support to speak of Leopard. With some video support, it will be just fine, because the G4 chip rocks in Leopard. Right now videos are completely choppy.
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Hello Ryan,
After reading your post, I posted a question on the Pismo G3 forum about whether anyone had tried to install Leopard on a Pismo with a G4 upgraded processor.
The Pismo has the same video card as the 400 Titanium.
I received a response form JPL that might interest you:
I looked at the version number of the ATIRage128.kext from 10.2.8 and it is version 1.2.26; the same kext is version 1.4.4 (created 3/26/05) in my 10.4.11. I don't know if a newer version may be compatible but it might be worth a try.
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Powerbook g4/400 power on porblems

Ok, ive got a g4/4oo pb, it recently had its monitors power cable short and burn. So last night i used a guide to replace the monitor on my own wih a new one from my spare parts (from another powerbook g4/400 mind you) i put it all the way back together and hit the button, it worked. so i went to do a clean install of panther, and my dvd rom drive started to mess up (cd not going in right ect) so i ejected the disc took off the bottom and tried to adjust it, i put it back to gether and IT DOSENT BOOT, no gong sound, nothing, the light on the caps lock key will go on, but no more, so i take it apart again (completely) and after a slight fight with the logic board (it didnt want to go back in) it went back together, still nothing. i have a spare of almost every part (extra ram, another pmu ect.
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Hi, Martha. After you've taken the entire machine apart and put it back together again multiple times, and without any assurance that your optical drive works or that there's a good OS installation on the hard drive, there is just no way for anyone to guess what might be wrong. It could be anything at all. You're going to have to start with a known-good AC adapter, optical drive and hard drive (ideally with a known-good OS for your PB installed on the latter) and then work your way very systematically through all the hardware assembly steps, checking for errors, loose connections and visible signs of damage every step of the way, until you either isolate the hardware fault or give up. Good luck — you're going to need it.

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However: wish Apple's Security Updates were better behaved, this experience is making me much more scared of applying any updates in future…
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I hear what you are saying.
Let's talk about failure probabilities over large populations. These trends may not apply to your specific case, since you do not have a large sample, you have one.
Of the components you mention, the ones least likely to fail are those that consist only of wires, such as the Hard drive cable. As I recall, it is a flex cable, which is even less likely to die in normal use unless you manage to stretch or pinch it -- it is made to be flexed.
Next least likely to fail is the motherboard electronics. Those drivers and connectors are meant to be plugged and unplugged a few times, but admittedly are not intended for harsh service, and are sometimes subject to zapping by static.
Most likely of all these components to fail is the spinning metal disk whose moveable heads fly much closer to the rapidly spinning surface than a smoke particle, a fingerprint, or a human hair. One good shock, or a few dozen smaller ones, and the head could crash onto the surface of the disk, scrubbing off some of the oxide and spraying it over the inside of the drive to cause more problems later.
If this is the original drive, it was manufactured in about 1999. The manufacturer probably sold the same drive at retail with a one-year warranty. Eight years later it has failed. Even if it is a replacement, it is the most likely the Drives that will fail. Thats why you were wise enough to make a backup.
I expect that the trouble you are having with multiple partitions is an indication that the disk is dying. The way to determine this is to re-write it with known patterns, and read back all those patterns and note which sectors require hardware error correction (to check for errors). A working drive has a number of spare sectors that can be low-level substituted for ones that are found to be bad during this test.
The way to accomplish this feat under Mac OS X is to initialize the drive with the "Zero All Data" option. It will take several hours to complete. If it passes, your disk has all good sectors. If it fails, running the test again sometimes does a second level of substitution and allows the drive to initialize OK.
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I have a G4/Titanium Powerbook and acquired a new iPod Nano (4th G). It requires a USB 2.0 port to synch/recharge, but my Laptop only has USB 1.1. I thought that a PCMCIA card would remedy the situation, but when I purchased one from SIIG, I was told by their Tech SUpport that the card did not support iPods. Synching on the USB 1.1 is murderously slow and I want to keep my war horse functional as long as I can. Does anyone know of a PCMCIA Card USB 2.0 adaptor that will work with iPod Nano 4th G? Thanks.

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You've landed in the PowerMac G4 forums for late-model desktop machines like pictured under my name at the left. The G4 PowerBooks have separate forum areas, broken down by model. This link takes you to the forum for the Ti PowerBooks:
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Does anyone know anything about these batteries? I see them sold from various resellers and on ebay, I think they are far east manufactured and are much cheaper than the newtech batteries.........
The question is, are they any good?
http://www.global-stores.co.uk/model.php/181771+a1078laptop-batteries?gclid=CIOYhvvQpZACFQ6ZQwod6FHhhQ#UNMAK012
I have two batteries which are down to about a quarter capacity and don't really want to spend another £100 before Christmas on a new battery.
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Titanium 400/500 displays compatible with Gigabit 550/667 models?

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Many thanks.

moonshot61 wrote:
Hi. Just wanted to ask if anyone's sure re. compatibility of the first-generation Titanium 400 and 500 model displays with the second-gen Gigabit ethernet models? I've written in another post here re. a problem with my Gigabit 667 screen: 3 horizontal bands, each 1/3 of screen, with bottom third all white, while desktop shows up in top 2 bands. Weird.
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Many thanks.
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Can I install 10.4.11 or above on my G4 Titanium 400 mhz with 512 megs ram?

Hello,
My wife and I are trying to determine if we can both find to purchase, and install 10.4.11 or above on our Titanium laptop. She has recently bought the Adobe Creative Suite CS 3 and it requires 10.4.11 or above. I'm pretty sure we can add more ram at a reasonable cost but are trying to determine if we can even install 10.4.11 on a machine with a processor that is this slow.
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Feel free to correct me if I am wrong in any of this and please post a reply
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...this firewire adapter...
I didn't say anything about a FireWire "adapter". I recommended buying a Firewire hard drive.
...Once I get the whole drive copied over to the external drive can I then use that drive internally...
No. An external drive is an external drive. If you buy one, use it as your backup.
...or do you think it will not actually boot up by itself.
Yes, if it has the Oxford chipset and you make a bootable clone on it, it will boot the Powerbook just fine via FireWire.
If I make a complete copy, can I use it as my only master copy or will it not copy the boot files necessary to start the computer up on it's own?
You won't want to have only one copy of anything. The purpose of backing up is to prevent the loss of your valuable files if the hard drive they're stored on fails...as every hard drive will do, sooner or later. You need two copies of everything important — on two different drives.
This is the main thing I am trying to do, and to use the internal hard drive as the back-up itself, only when needed.
This is a wrong-headed idea. Your internal drive should be your primary drive. An external drive should be used for backup. If you store any data on the external drive that isn't also on the internal, that data should be backed up on a second external drive.
If your internal drive isn't big enough to store all the data to which you need ready access, replace it with a bigger internal drive.

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