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The Power Macintosh G4 is series of personal desktop computers released by Apple in 1999, and sold through 2004. This page is for the M5183 designation.

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everything pluged in will not turn on

i have everythimg pluged in and i hit the power button and it will not turn on. can my power supply be shot if so what all do I need to change out

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What symptoms do you get? Any sounds, any lights? How were your date and time and printer connections doing before it quit?

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i get nothing i hit the power button and it won't turn on

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The first thing I would try is replacing the 3.6 volt 1/2 AA PRAM battery. Exactly which G4 PowerMac do you have?

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thank you i will try that

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Please don't accept my answer till your problem has been resolved.

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If the battery fails, remove any added PCI cards, all USB and firewire externals, ethernet cable and all added RAM. We still need to know exactly which machine you have.

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sorry i will undo it i have been looking online were can i find this battery

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power supply mate

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