When I try and turn on g4 mac nothing happens (light comes on only while pressed)? HELP?

Question

Hey my father gave me his old mac g4 desktop. I just tried to set it up and i cannot make it work...any advice?? Everything seems to be plugged in and when i press the on button it lights up like its about to start but then it doesnt. as soon as i let go of the button the light goes away...is the light supposed to stay on? has anyone else had this problem? I have been reading online that there is some way that you can reset the comp....any ideas would be helpful. and the monitor def works. THANKS!!!

Answer 1

If you can, open the cd drive and insert the system cd/dvd.  Then upon startup hold down the "C" key and it should boot to the cd install disk.  other possibility is that your brightness is set all the way down.

Answer 2

Do you hear anything when you turn it in?  You'll either hear the old familiar Mac tone, OR if you have bad memory you will hear a solid beep for like 1 second or so.  I have 3 Macs, and I bought some memory for them, and put it in, and tried to turn the computer on but it wouldn't come on- instead I heard just a solid beep when I was supposed to hear the startup sound.  No screen.  Removed memory, put old memory back in, worked fine.