Other Recent-ish Posts of Note on This Site UPDATE: Another tip I received was to unplug FireWire devices before running security updates, etc. I hope, hope, hope this solves my RAM problems going forward. No “folder with a question mark”, no tornado effect from the fans, just a happy boot. At the prompt, enter the following commands (you may want to write them down on a piece of paper before beginning this process), pressing the return key after each:Īfter doing this, the Mac started right up. To boot into Open Firmware, shut down your Mac, then start it up while holding down the Command, Option, O and F keys. Note: be sure to have all of your RAM installed before you do this. As I’ve come to expect from OWC, he listened patiently as I explained the situation, asked a few questions and had a potential solution for me: reset the NVRAM (non volitile RAM). Sure enough, I gave them a call and explained the situation to Andy.
Now that I had a pattern, I thought the OWC tech guys might know what was going on. Sure enough, I saw the same little “folder with a question mark” briefly, then on to the gray Apple screen and a successful boot. On a hunch this morning, I removed only half of the RAM I’d installed and tried again. It seemed like it was recognizing the new RAM, then going on and booting up. Before going to the gray Apple screen, I got the little “folder with a question mark” briefly, then on to the gray Apple screen. I’d just put in new RAM earlier in the week and I noticed something a little odd on the first boot after adding the RAM in. The machine starts to boot, the screen stays black, and the fans come on full blast. (Sorry for the long title, trying to make it descriptive to help future searchers on this topic.)īackground: I’ve been having problems with the RAM in my PowerMac G5 Quad pretty much ever since I got it:
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