Hi all,
I'm the proud owner of a 2 year old 15" Powerbook, and for the past two days, my laptop has not correctly or completely booted up no matter what I have tried. I've manually shut down (holding the power button for 2-3 seconds) and restarted it over two dozen times, to no avail. The best result I got so far was to leave it alone for an hour, then come back and immediately run Norton's before doing anything else...only it got a quarter of the way through and the computer just slowed to a halt...I could move the cursor but nothing would select or switch between programs.
Now, it can't even get past the grey Apple screen. I tried refreshing the PRAM with the command-option-P-R trick when restarting, but never got the second start-up noise that you're supposed to hear. I leave the computer on for hours, and it never gets past the grey screen. Ideas?
Interestingly enough, the computer is making two distinct noises. One is the regular click/hum of the HD when its thinking hard, the other sounds like its coming from the CD-ROM drive. I'd liken it to a very old, very slow disk drive from the IIc era...the sound those used to make when reading a floppy.
As far as I can remember, there is not a CD or DVD in the drive. I haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary with the computer, and it was working two days ago.
PLEASE. ANY IDEAS?
Many thanks!
I'm the proud owner of a 2 year old 15" Powerbook, and for the past two days, my laptop has not correctly or completely booted up no matter what I have tried. I've manually shut down (holding the power button for 2-3 seconds) and restarted it over two dozen times, to no avail. The best result I got so far was to leave it alone for an hour, then come back and immediately run Norton's before doing anything else...only it got a quarter of the way through and the computer just slowed to a halt...I could move the cursor but nothing would select or switch between programs.
Now, it can't even get past the grey Apple screen. I tried refreshing the PRAM with the command-option-P-R trick when restarting, but never got the second start-up noise that you're supposed to hear. I leave the computer on for hours, and it never gets past the grey screen. Ideas?
Interestingly enough, the computer is making two distinct noises. One is the regular click/hum of the HD when its thinking hard, the other sounds like its coming from the CD-ROM drive. I'd liken it to a very old, very slow disk drive from the IIc era...the sound those used to make when reading a floppy.
As far as I can remember, there is not a CD or DVD in the drive. I haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary with the computer, and it was working two days ago.
PLEASE. ANY IDEAS?
Many thanks!
