Another...my Mac Wont Start

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rick derris

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i bought a powerbook g4 last summer, off ebay. been very happy with it. sadly it didnt come with OS SW DISC. i have the latest version as i downlaoded the update recently

the last few days its been behaving weirdly, resetting date to 1970, unable to connect to some programs. i installed a spyware program, turned it on.

it reached the grey screen with the mac logo and that spinning thing. it then goes to os x loading screen and the blue status line. it inceases to the end but just keeps going.

Now this is a weird bit - i cant boot in safe mode (hold down shift right!) it hust does the same process as above

HELP ME!!
 
The date going back to 1970, that means that the cache battery on the motherboard is dead and must be replaced. forget about spyware stuff. plus the rest might sound as if you simply need to reinstall the OS. Didn't _come_ with an OS installation disk? Go to Apple about it. Say you've lost it. The original disks _belong_ to the computer.
 
'i installed a spyware program, turned it on.' - and the name of the application and publisher, and URL of its related web site are?
 
Not really. I'd say something's wrong with the Finder's preference file or the Finder itself. Couldn't really say. Without an OS X disk, you can't even _start_ to troubleshoot OS X in my opinion, because the first things to do would be to boot from it and run Disk Utility from the Tools menu in order to repair the volume and permissions. Can do that if you can boot into the command line, though. Which you can't, I guess?
 
2 questions

i have seen the mac os for 20 pounds (sorry, in the uk) version 10.3. would that be ok fortrouble shooting discs or would the mac not recognise a differnet os

2. a simple one. how they hell do i access the motherboard? taken those screws out but still cant open
 
Since I have no idea what exact model your PowerBook is, it's a little difficult to answer these questions.

1.) *IF* that disc is the _retail_ version, it should boot on that PowerBook just fine, as long as the PowerBook originally came with an _older_ version of the OS. If, however, the PowerBook originally came with a newer version than the one on the disc, it probably simply won't boot from it.

2.) That, too, depends on what model we're looking at. You can try to figure out what it is on apple-history.com or using MacTracker (look on macupdate.com for that utility).
 
nono, that has got nothing to do with it. the question is whether that iBook _supports_ booting from a 10.3 disk. And that depends on its age. What model is it? 1.0 GHz, 1.2 GHz? Newer?
 
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