Power Mac G4 internal battery

Is there such a thing? My clock has been losing minutes, my prefrences return to default and now Classic is not recognized. When I "get info" on my System the "open with" is "HP Laserjet utility". Any thoughts would be appreciated

Appears that your setting are not being retained in memory due to a weak battery. Check this site for battery part numbers and sources. Mac PRAM, NVRAM, CUDA/PMU & Battery Tutorial
 Cheers, Tom

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I am wondering if my battery is dead.
I had stored my G4 Dual 1.25 GHz MDD for about 5 months while I moved to a new location and built my new recording studio. Upon powering it up it ran fine the first day (only had it powered up for about 10 minutes). The second time (a few days later), it was fine for 10 minutes, then the displays went off on their own (they weren't set to sleep). They would come off and on intermittently. When they were on, sometimes I had use of the mouse and keyboard and sometimes I wouldn't. After a few minutes of this they would stay off. Once they were off, the power button did not respond like it usually does. If I held it down or 5 seconds trying to power off, it would not respond. It didn't matter how long I held it, it would never power off. The only way I could power off was to pull the plug. After doing that, I restarted and reset the PRAM. It powered up and I had to reset the date and time. It seemed like it was ok for a minute, then the monitors went dark again, went on and off 3 or 4 times, then stayed off. The power button again did not respond normally.
Is this all due to a dead battery, or is there another problem ?
In the new studio, I did set up the G4 on it's side.
I'm wondering if this had anything to do with it.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Steve
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Thanks or your help, Tom.
I tried reseting the PRAM, and I also reset the PMU button.
I think there is something wrong with the logic board.
I will re-post with a new title.
The heat sync is extremely hot, and the larger fan that is directed at the heat sync is not working.
I just found this article when I did a search for power mac G4 fan: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95038
in that article, it mentions 2 LED's that should be either both on or both off, and there is only one of these LED's that is light
<1. Power Macintosh G4 (PCI Graphics): Check LEDs DS7 and DS8 on the logic board. In a working unit, these LEDs should be in sync with each other: both on or both off. If one LED is on and the other is off, there is a problem.>
any idea what this means ?
thanks
Steve
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You've already done the two things I would have suggested.
If your Mini has an internal battery then I assume it's a G4. That means you've gotten a lot of good years of service from it, and it's old enough that it's certainly not covered by AppleCare anymore, and it's probably not worth spending money trying to repair it.
You should be able to tear it apart using instructions from ifixit.com to get the hard drive out, and then put the hard drive into a nice USB or FireWire enclosure (I like the ones from Other World Computing, macsales.com) so you can transfer your data to a replacement Mac.
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I have a Power Mac G4 MDD with a 1.42G Dual Processor, 2GB Ram using a 500GB HD operating OS 10.5.8 The problem I am having is that my computer will boot just fine for a week or so then all of a sudden it won’t boot up at all from the internal HD. Here are the symptoms; I get the ‘chime’, then the grey screen appears with the black apple logo and I see the ‘spinning gear’. The spinning gear stops (after about 15 secs) then it goes to a light blue screen and just sits there forever. I usually see this ‘blue screen’ for about 2 seconds just before my desktop appears on the screen during a normal boot. I could go home tonight and it might boot up just fine, I don’t know, but it’s very frustrating. Things I have tried – ( I have two MDD’s so it’s pretty easy to troubleshoot) but still no successful boot sequence.
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4. Removed the 500 GB HD and installed in another MDD and it boots every time.
5. Replaced Motherboard with a known good spare I have.
6. Swapped out RAM modules
I’m not sure what’s next? Processor?, Power Supply??, Video Card??
Maybe someone out there has seen or witnessed this strange occurrence on their MDD?

I have not reseated ALL the connectors but I will try that first tonight. I removed the AC last night so when I get home I will power it up and try again. When I can get it to boot reliably, it's usually been following an AC outage overnight or a couple of days.
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Using the battery level meter in this manner is comparable to using your car's fuel gauge to calculate miles per gallon. The only thing that matters is the total amount of operating time from full charge to auto-shutdown.
Use an Apple wall-mount charger. Do NOT use a computer's USB port. Then, operate it normally until auto shut-down (ignore any low level alerts that may appear). An irony is that doing that test to determine the total operating time is also the exact procedure necessary to calibrate the battery level meter.
I'm not claiming that you do not have a problem. I am stating, however, that we don't yet know whether or not a battery problem exists.
According to Apple:
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For proper reporting of the battery’s state of charge, be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).
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I just bought & installed the La Cie internal Lightscribe DVD burner to replace the Pioneer DVD burner which wore out. ( Installed into a Power Mac G4 - mirror drive door version.)
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dc power converter or bad battery?
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dc power converter or bad battery?
primary (internal) battery (error 601)
windows shows battery at 100%
laptop will not boot off battery, will boot only on ac but with battery installed shows error 601
HP eliteBook 6930
no spare battery
This error is a little confusing. At first glance it appears to refer to the CMOS/RTC battery but does infact refer to the main battery for the notebook. Even though the computer states that the battery is at 100% it would be a good idea to begin by verifying that it is in working condition. I think this is a good first step because while it does show 100% charge, you state the notebook does not work unless it is on AC power. This document discusses the issue further.
As stated in the document the HP Battery Check will need to be run in order to determine if the battery is faulty.
To perform the battery check perform the following steps and post the result.
Unplug the power cord and turn off the computer.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Press the Esc key immediately when seeing the HP or the Compaq logo screen.
The Start Up menu appears.
Press F2 to select F2 System Diagnostics .
Select Battery Test from the list of diagnostic tests.
Plug in the power cord.
Click Start Battery Test on the Battery Test page.
If your battery fails this test it will need to be replaced. To get a replacement battery you will need to contact HP Technical Support. If you are in the US/Canada you can call them at 1-800-474-6836. If you are located outside of this region you will need to go to HP's support site and after selecting your country/region locate "Customer Support" in the bottom right corner to get the contact information for your region.
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Power Mac G5, more than two internal HD

Can the Power Mac G5 support more than two internal hard drives?
If no, what are recommended solutions for inexpensive external storage? I work with standard definition video so I'm thinking FW800 would be ok. Thoughts?
Thanks,
jeremy
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It sure can.
Depending on how crazy you want to get, the Power mac will hold up to 11 drives!
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Swift data has a system that will hold 3 extra drives with their Swift Data 200.
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eSATA
I am going to buy this when i get $$$
Quite a good system, speeds up to 500 Mb/s
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Maxconnect also has one
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Firewire
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If you want one that matches your Beautiful Powermac
Transintl again, has a nice one
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work out prices with taxes and shipping
and compare the transfer speeds in the $$ range you are looking at.
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To format a drive, open Disk Utility, highlight the drive in the left-hand list, go to the Erase tab, choose a format (generally, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is recommended), enter a name for the drive, and click Erase.
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Hey guys
My Mac has a Western Digital caviar ( WDC - WD2500JD ) which was there right from the start and since I’m going through big reorganization of my computer’s music production I decided to add one more internal HD.
I’ve been researching for hours - but still - I was not able to come up with good solution thanks to all the information I have got.
Before I started with research my choice was Seagate barracuda SATA - 320 Gb or 500 Gb or Western digital Raptor 150 GB.
Unfortunately I’ve found there has been some problems with seagate barracuda 7200.9 and 7200.10 on powermac G5 and basically similar thing with WD Raptor 150 GB.
This is leaving me with Raptor 74 GB which is too small or Maxtor or Hitachi HD which I’m not sure about.
From what I’ve read another choice would be to buy PCI host card and instead of go onboard with seagate or raptor I would have to do it this way. - That apparently would work with both mentioned drives.
So here are my two question
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2) Is the PCI host card way to go ? Would that be the solution to make latest seagate or raptor drive work and and also way to improve the performance instead of going onboard.
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In the past there were some drives that didn't work properly.
Seagate drives are fine for video, but don't play as nicely where smaller files are concerned, making it less than stellar for boot drives.
the problem is bad enough that Apple only recently updated the SATA chipset used in Mac Pro (Intel) systems that seems to correct the problem.
On a G5 you may also want to jumper the drive to limit it to 150MB/sec "mode" (G5 only supports SATA 1.0, not SATA II).
mbean (search for userid) had this to day:
Michael Bean of AMUG wrote in reply to my question on write performance with the Seagate 7200.10 drives with PCI SATA cards (vs onboard SATA):
" I saw your question today about the performance of the Seagate 7200.10 on a SATA host adapter. (i.e. was the low write performance seen with onboard SATA.
... the 7200.10 does work properly on a SATA host adapter with read and write speeds of approximately 72MB/sec on a Quad or an original PowerMac G5 2.0GHz Dual. (single drive performance?)
However, if you install that same 7200.10 as a non-RAID volume internally on a PowerMac G5, or a Mac Pro internal SATA bus, the write speed is decreased by approximately 40% to 44MB/sec while the read speed stays at 72MB/sec.
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http://www.amug.org/
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Michael Bean
TEAM AMUG "
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