| Panther problem
Odd one this... help appreciated. Please and thanks.
Powerbook arrives and boots fine.
Whilst downloading 10.3.6 and other updates it freezes and needs 'hold power button down' treatment.
Then refuses to boot fully. 'Loading' rectangle appears... then thin black line extends across screen from right hand side then screen fades to purple on right whilst the rest is fine.
Same when trying to boot from DiskWarrior bootdisk.
Having tried all the usual key combos, phone call to Apple produces a few other variants. No better. Replacement organised, I ask 'can we eject the disk somehow?' Booting into 'open firmware'? produces an 'eject device not found' message (or something similar).
Successfully eject with piece of card then switch off and walk away.
Hhhmmm... wonder if? I reboot with system restore disk. The run system hardware test. Machine goes blank whilst testing. After reboot, it provides the install screen and I re-install then download some upddates and all seems fine.
Faulty graphics card perhaps?  |