Hi,
I recently was given an Ibook G4 from a family member who had bought a newer machine. When they had it they told me that occasionally when it boots up it displays a folder and goes no further, they told me that restarting it solves this and that it was probably a tired hard drive. I decided to replace it with a Western Digital 160GB HDD. I done the same to my G4 power book a few years ago without any problems so had no issues doing it. When i booted it up i inserted the install discs and went to do a fresh install. After a few attempts at getting the mac to discover the hard drive i eventually got the machine to start running the OS X installtion discs with varying results each time.
A number of times the machine installs the os and seems fine and tells me to restart on completion. When i do the machine does not boot up from the disc again and i have to run the stallation again and again. This seems to keep on going on and on. Now some times the mac freezes when installing the OS and other times when i begin the process it cant find the hard drive. On one occasion it loaded the OS fine and i could use it. When i restarted the computer i got the folder icon and had to start again.
Is this a logic board problem? I dont think it is a hard drive issue as i had the same problem with the original 30gb hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated as im getting close to getting the sledge hammer out
I recently was given an Ibook G4 from a family member who had bought a newer machine. When they had it they told me that occasionally when it boots up it displays a folder and goes no further, they told me that restarting it solves this and that it was probably a tired hard drive. I decided to replace it with a Western Digital 160GB HDD. I done the same to my G4 power book a few years ago without any problems so had no issues doing it. When i booted it up i inserted the install discs and went to do a fresh install. After a few attempts at getting the mac to discover the hard drive i eventually got the machine to start running the OS X installtion discs with varying results each time.
A number of times the machine installs the os and seems fine and tells me to restart on completion. When i do the machine does not boot up from the disc again and i have to run the stallation again and again. This seems to keep on going on and on. Now some times the mac freezes when installing the OS and other times when i begin the process it cant find the hard drive. On one occasion it loaded the OS fine and i could use it. When i restarted the computer i got the folder icon and had to start again.
Is this a logic board problem? I dont think it is a hard drive issue as i had the same problem with the original 30gb hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated as im getting close to getting the sledge hammer out
