Mac mini will boot from disc but nothing else

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I have an Apple Mac Mini 1.42 G4 /512MB/80GB/Combo/AP/BT and I got it from someone not working. I can get it to boot from a disc but it will not turn on otherwise. I am not skilled enough to troubleshoot the issue yet but if i knew what the problem was, i could fix it(if its something fixable). any ideas?


It will turn on, but it will stay at the apple logo forever. I would love to get this little machine running as it would be perfect for my USB CryptoCurrency mining.
 
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Then the solution (it seems) is to get it back to it's original ram configuration - might need to purchase some simply to get the OS installed (one thread said such tactics were borderline criminal - I don't know that I agree but I think it's pretty messed up). I have no idea what the original ram may have been (it varied by model release) but the Apple website seems to be rather informative, it may be buried somewhere you can find it http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4432
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What you are describing I would attribute to a failing or corrupted hard drive. Try starting in "safe mode" (directions here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564?viewlocale=en_US ). If you can load into safe mode then the likely explanation would be a corrupted program or driver (which the OS should attempt to fix automatically)
If you can't get into safe mode, I'd say hard drive replacement would be the ticket then
 
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i tried that and it wouldnt go into safe mode. I got this from a friend and I have never dealt with mac's before. I just created a new GUID partition and am doing a Zero Out Data Erase to see if i can get it to work. If the hard drive was corrupted, would it still show the size and everything when i have the disk utility up?
 
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Two things I found here, one memory, if memory has been upgraded, install may not work and two, (as I pointed out) failed hard drive. The hard drive may still show as being available through the disk utility yet be bad.
I would first check to see if memory has been upgraded.
 
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how would i go about doing that?
 
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Then the solution (it seems) is to get it back to it's original ram configuration - might need to purchase some simply to get the OS installed (one thread said such tactics were borderline criminal - I don't know that I agree but I think it's pretty messed up). I have no idea what the original ram may have been (it varied by model release) but the Apple website seems to be rather informative, it may be buried somewhere you can find it http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4432
 
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