Startup Casulties

ss43 · #1 September 24th, 2005, 12:30 AM

I have an ibook g4, 12' 1gz , One day I was d/ling a simpons episode and the computer turned off. Upon restart it came to a grey screen with black box saying You need to restart in 5 languages. tried that about 5 times and kept going there. tried to zap the pram , same problem. Im not worried about my data i just want to be able to use this thing again. I tied to boot from the cd that came with it, same thing after the cd loads it goes to that screen. I have a firewire cd drive and when i try the cd that came with it or a jaguar cd or a diskwarrior boot cd i get the same result. I have tried loading in target mode. and i get the same outcome.Jaguar is whats installed on it.Classic is not installed on my system. I have another mac g4 and a firewiredirive , what are my other options. what can i do in single or verbose mode to fix this or what can i do period.

barhar · #2 September 24th, 2005, 04:31 AM

'what are my other options?'
Options:
01. With the Jaguar installation CD inserted into the PowerBook (PB), reboot the PB with the <options> key pressed. Once all of the bootable volumes are displayed and the cursor eventually becomes an arrow - click on the Jaguar installation CD's icon and then the '-->' button.
02. With the PB turned OFF - connect the two Macs with a Firewire cable, turn ON the PB with the 'T' pressed - until the Firewire symbol appears on the PB's screen, locate the PB's icon on the 'other' G4. Backup any files (if possible) and reinstall Jaguar (and all related updates) and all other applications.

'what can i do in single or verbose mode to fix this ...', you cannot do anything from within the listed modes. See the two options above.

ss43 · #3 September 26th, 2005, 01:14 AM

Ok when i use option to start from CD it lets me choose the cd, then goes to to a grey apple green acts like its gunna load , than goes to a blue screen, plain. It sounds like the cd quit spining after about 5 minutes of the screen being blue , then theres nothing you can do. When i try to boot from my mac g4 in target mode, the firewire icon appears and my other mac seems ok then the grey screen whith the black box and you need to restart. This comes up on the screen of my other mac and i have to reboot. im using the firewire cable from my dvd-r,external. Anyboy got anything else I can do?

Damrod · #4 September 26th, 2005, 07:39 AM

Revenge of the non-p2p alliance, that's what you get from downloading... (Sorry, could not resist...

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Hm, I think it's strange that you can not boot from the CD. Do you have in any way warrenty left for it? If that's the case, I would get it to Apple for them to take a look.

Satcomer · #5 September 26th, 2005, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ss43

Ok when i use option to start from CD it lets me choose the cd, then goes to to a grey apple green acts like its gunna load , than goes to a blue screen, plain. It sounds like the cd quit spining after about 5 minutes of the screen being blue , then theres nothing you can do. When i try to boot from my mac g4 in target mode, the firewire icon appears and my other mac seems ok then the grey screen whith the black box and you need to restart. This comes up on the screen of my other mac and i have to reboot. im using the firewire cable from my dvd-r,external. Anyboy got anything else I can do?

Yep, I have an idea. What you have is a hardware problem that manifested itself. It may be a bad RAM model or something worse. Fist try to remove any extra RAM. Second, if the first step is fruitless, take the machine to an Apple store (if your AppleCare is still valid) or or to your local Apple Specialist.

**fryke** · #6 September 26th, 2005, 08:26 AM

Quite definitely a hardware issue, yes.

ss43 · #7 September 26th, 2005, 08:26 AM

thanxs for the input, damrod you cracked me up. I had that system7. its hard to even imagine. Before 10.0(X) there were alot of updates and rumors of the new software. I heard the rumor before os-x, the system software was going to be called "Copeland" but it got scraped. I wish e-World was still here. anyways. I bought the laptop for 50 bucks (used, as is) the guy I got it from was the one of the p2p. However it has tons of pirated stuff on there so im not taking it to an apple store. The apple care has been invalid for months, i guess im going to buy an external hd enclosure and install Panther and try to boot from that, think it will work?

lightsabre · #8 September 26th, 2005, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Damrod

Hm, I think it's strange that you can not boot from the CD. Do you have in any way warrenty left for it? If that's the case, I would get it to Apple for them to take a look.

Does an apple warranty cover software issues?