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It's a tower. What an odd coincidence that my disk drive AND hard drive failed at the same time :D. Thanks for your help.

Sorry, I misspoke. It won't recognize the Mac OsX DVD. It actually sees the HD in safe mode (but it won't start up), but the DVD doesn't exist as far as the computer is concerned. And I JUST used that DVD... there's nothing wrong with it.

The old thread: http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/318837-horrible-problem-tiger.html

Hey guys, you were super helpful a couple of months ago when I needed help with my old iBook G4. Now I have a new, related problem :D, this time with an old G5 desktop computer (also running version 10.4). With this one I'm getting past the gray screen to a blank blue screen. Sometimes my cursor...

Thanks guys, but I'm going to buy a new MacBook really soon, so I'm not really going to bother to much with my old iBook. I'm definitely not an occasional user (I'm a recording artist, so I use it a lot), so I'll look into the stuff you mentioned. Thanks again. :D

Yay! It repaired! And thanks, but I already did that, DoctorX. :)

Nevermind, I restarted it and it's working, I'm repairing the hard drive now. Thanks for your help.

Okay, I did that, and it worked... but apparently my hard drive is damaged to the point that it's not even showing up in disk utility. What is showing up, though, is a 23.9 GB Hitachi internal HD (which it will not let me repair), and that is really weird as my hard drive is a 60 GB drive. What...

Hi. My poor old (2004) iBook G4 seems to have died on me. I turn it on and all I get is a blank gray screen - no apple, no little swirly thing, just dead (it does make the startup noise though). To make matters worse, my startup disk is already inside and I can't eject it. What should I do?