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My Power Mac G5 is no longer starting up. A few days ago I hit the power up button and as it started up there was a loud 'pop' noise. The noise was reminiscent of some kind of power surge. The system no longer starts up - when I click the power up button it makes a clicking noise and flashes a...

Hello, I just restarted my mac (Powermac G5 OSX 10.4.11) after I opened iTunes and found no songs in my music box and the song I tried to open wouldn't play. When the computer started up all my desktop picture were gone and all the folders on the desktop were also gone. All the system...

So this is the problem: My OS X 10.4.11 is not starting up on my Powermac G5. When I boot up I get a message telling me to reboot my system 'kernal panic: We are hanging here..' I'm pretty sure I deleted a necessary file. I am trying to install OS X again using archive and install...

Further researched shows that changing the short name of my account was the problem. I'm fixing the problem now - quite a scare!

Hello, I just restarted my mac (Powermac G5 OSX 10.4.11) after I opened iTunes and found no songs in my music box and the song I tried to open wouldn't play. When the computer started up all my desktop picture were gone and all the folders on the desktop were also gone. All the system...