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February 24th, 2008, 12:00 PM
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| power book g4 will not boot at all.. help!! my powerbookg4 will not boot at all when i turn it on i get the sreen with the apple in the center then i get the spinning gear and thats it. it will spin until i turn it off. i have tried booting with the original software cd and it just ejects it by itself after a min. it seemed like it started acting up when i updated my panther software.it took away my accounts in the system preferences like they dissapeared the when i turnned it on yesterday it woulndnt boot. i have no idea what to do now please help... thnks alot john  |
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February 24th, 2008, 03:46 PM
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| Sounds like the system is screwed up. Few things to try: Insert the system CD and restart holding Option key instead of C key. See what choices you have for startup..hard drive and CD. Click on the CD and see if it starts that way. If so run Disk Utility to repair Permissions and the disk. If you still can't start to the hard drive you may have to do an Archive and Install. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120 Have you tried holding down the Shift Key during start up (safe boot mode)? OR On start, hold down the Command and S keys to get a black screen with white letters and a command line prompt -- Once you are there, type in: fsck -yf (note the space between the fsck and the "dash"yf).....once you hit return, it should do some disk-level checks and tell you it either found errors (in which case you want to run the same command again) or that the disk was "OK". Once it tells you the disk is "OK", then type: reboot and when you push the return key, it should try to start normally. Other things to try: Reset power manager http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 ------------ Do you have an external firewire drive or other Mac? You could try starting up in FW Target Disk Mode to run utilities on the drive. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583 |
