restart?

Sounds like a 'kernel panic' at boot time. Try taking out any additional RAM you have in your iBook. It might be faulty - or at least not compatible 'enough'.
 
what do u mean additional RAM? i reseted the PRAM thingie like it said on the apple support site but nothin seems to help.
 
i think it might be hard drive hardware problem. cuz when i turn it on it makes these really wierd noises. really wierd
 
Hmmm... weird noises? Really weird noises? Like a half-dead bird singing an Eddie Money song? Or like two pieces of tile floor arguing? Or maybe the sound of morning in black?

Be a little more specific on the noises... clicking? Grinding? Loud? Soft? It may be a bad hard drive, but if it sounds like anything in the first paragraph, it may not be so bad after all... ;)
 
Exactly what does the screen look like when you get that message? Gray? Blue?
Do you see the log in screen with the list of users?
 
netdisk said:
i think it might be hard drive hardware problem. cuz when i turn it on it makes these really wierd noises. really wierd
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One quick check that will give an indication of drive health is to open Disk Utility and select the drive, not the volume on the drive, then look near the bottom right of the Disk Utility window for the S.M.A.R.T. values. If it is anything other than verified your drive is well on the way to the trash heap and should be replaced immediately. A S.M.A.R.T. value of verified does not guarantee the mechanism is healthy, but any other value is a reliable indicator that it is unhealthy.
 
he's getting a KERNEL PANIC at boot-time. that means no booting from harddrive, no booting from CD, no booting from anything, really. it's definitely a hardware fault. my gut feeling is a bad DIMM, so i still say: take out the RAM brick, if there is one... even if it's not user-installed, there can still be one, if ordered with more than the originally soldered RAM on the motherboard.

_could_ be the harddrive, but then you could still boot from the CD, would not result in a kernel panic afaik.
 
Did you modify any system folders or files - that is anything inside the system OS X folder? That is a no no.
Disconnect all peripheral devices. This includes ADB, serial, USB, FireWire, SCSI, and PCMCIA devices. If this resolves the issue, connect one device at a time, restarting after each one, until you've determined which device is causing the issue.

These hardware items may produce a kernel panic message during startup. If one of them is installed, check to see if it's causing the issue by removing them.

AirPort Extreme card
Matrox RTMac card
128-Bit 2D/3D Professional Graphics Card
PC Card modem
The installer for an application you recently installed could have caused this issue.

Did you try starting up with the OS CD? When you get the installer screen - go to the Installer Menu and select Disk Utility.
 
I can boot from the CD by holding down "option" at start up and i choose the CD. I reinstalled OSX and i still get the same problem. And yes i tried booting from the hard drive before reinstalling the operating sys but a bunch of wierd looking lines came up and it froze. I tried booting from the HD a bunch of times bofore trying the operating sys but the same thing kept on happening. I think its without question a hardware problem.
 
What about the ram? Make sure it's not that before you look for hardware problems. Unless... has your iBook been dropped lately? A few months ago, my G4 accidently got knocked off the iCurve and hit the table on its edge. Not too bad but the next morning, the computer wouldn't start. No funny noises just the grey screen and the loading icon. I guess the drop jiggled stuff so I took it in and Apple went ahead an replaced the hard drive just to be on the safe side.
 
i havent cheked the RAM but i don't want to open it up cuz laptops are really bad to put bak together cuz everything is like squeezed inside.
 
netdisk said:
i havent cheked the RAM but i don't want to open it up cuz laptops are really bad to put bak together cuz everything is like squeezed inside.
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What?! It's simple and doesn't take long. You just need a small screwdriver, like the type to fix glasses, and you're good to go. Apple even has directions on how to do it.
But no, take a big chance and take your entire iBook into the shop, be without for a few days and have your hard drive wiped clean (standard procedure) and have them do the the same thing you could do in 15 minutes.
Honestly, if you're looking for advice by posting, why not follow the main suggestion made my the majority of the people who have posted and offered you help?
It's not going to hurt anything and you could save yourself a lot of lost time, trouble and maybe money if you do check.
 
thanks, i think ill take my chances and open it up myself. I've opened up my other comps before the add some RAM but they werent laptops. But i'll try it. If i make it worse i can get it fixed for free cuz i got the laptop from skool so they fix it or replace it for free.
 
does that guide work for the newest iBook cuz the one being displayed in the picture isnt the one i have. I have an iBook G4.
 
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