Conor McCarthy
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Hi all,
I've a Powerbook G4 running osx server which I've been running with as external monitor as the screen on it is broken.
The harddrive in it got full and the computer crashed so I force restared it, but now it won't startup. The external monitor doesn't turn on and I'm pretty sure the OS isn't starting up (i cant ping the computer from the network etc).
If I startup from a CD i get as far as getting a blue background and a pointer on the screen. But I can do absloutly nothing except move the pointer about. The pointer moves off to one side of the screen as if its moving onto the powerbook's broken screen.
I think there may some sort of request for input on the laptops broken screen which i cannot see.
Pressing the F7 key to change from monitor mirroring does nothing. Pressing pretty much anything on the keyboard does nothing.
Is there a way I can get the laptop to startup form the cd and only use the external display device? Or any other things I could try at startup?
Any help rould be really appreciated. I am really at a loss as what to do.
Thanks
Conor
I've a Powerbook G4 running osx server which I've been running with as external monitor as the screen on it is broken.
The harddrive in it got full and the computer crashed so I force restared it, but now it won't startup. The external monitor doesn't turn on and I'm pretty sure the OS isn't starting up (i cant ping the computer from the network etc).
If I startup from a CD i get as far as getting a blue background and a pointer on the screen. But I can do absloutly nothing except move the pointer about. The pointer moves off to one side of the screen as if its moving onto the powerbook's broken screen.
I think there may some sort of request for input on the laptops broken screen which i cannot see.
Pressing the F7 key to change from monitor mirroring does nothing. Pressing pretty much anything on the keyboard does nothing.
Is there a way I can get the laptop to startup form the cd and only use the external display device? Or any other things I could try at startup?
Any help rould be really appreciated. I am really at a loss as what to do.
Thanks
Conor