PowerMac G5 Startup

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Jackrushing

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I am having trouble with my 2004 PowerMac again. I can only start it up by
holding down the Space Bar. I found this by accident, after trying the C key,
and the Pram reset keys, which did not work. What is this an indication of,
and can it be fixed? Thank You.
 
Are you running OS X or OS 9? Holding spacebar at startup in OS 9 brought up the Extension Manager so that Extensions could be enabled/disabled before the system booted.

I don't know if it has any functionality in OS X.
 
When you hold down the 'c' key, is there a bootable CD or DVD in the drive, like the Mac OS X Install/Restore CD/DVD? Holding 'c' boots the machine from the optical drive.

When you say "pram reset keys," are you trying to reset the PRAM by rebooting the computer and immediately holding down the keys command-option-p-r and keeping those keys held down until the machine reboots three times?

Is your keyboard connected directly to the computer, or is it connected via some USB hub or something?
 
EDCC,
Sorry, I am unable to check anything else out at present. I cannot get it
to start up using any means. I will continue to work on it. Thanks
 
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