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Playingal - Aug 17, 2005 - 1:02 pm
I bought an ibook from a sale that Henrico County public schools put on sale yesterday for $50.00. When we first started it up we found it to be extreamly slow and we were into the registration part when we decided to unplug it and take it to the room where the router is thinking that might make it work better. When we plugged it back in all it would do is go to a blue screen with an apple in the middle and a twirling little thing that looked like a screw under the apple. It wouldn't do anything but stay there. It also makes a clicking noise. Someone said it might be the hard drive.
What I would like to know is how much is too much to pay to get it working. I don't know what student may have had it or how much it may have been abused. It is scratched up a bit but the keyboard looks fine.
Thank you for any advice you can give.
Brenda
What I would like to know is how much is too much to pay to get it working. I don't know what student may have had it or how much it may have been abused. It is scratched up a bit but the keyboard looks fine.
Thank you for any advice you can give.
Brenda
baldprof - Aug 18, 2005 - 6:17 pm
If you have access to an original Mac OS X CD, then what you could try is inserting the CD in the drive, and then forcing a restart, while holding down the "C" key to force it to boot from the CD.
Once it finishes booting, you will see a series of screens connected with the installation process. You have two choices: you can either try to repair what is there, or you can choose the erase and install procedure.
If you want to try repairing what is there, when you see an options buttons, click that, and run Disk Utility. Click Disk First Aid, and select Repair Disk. Rerun that procedure until you get a message saying no errors were found. Then Repair Permissions, and when that finishes restart normally.
It's possible though that the hard drive may be so messed up that the Disk Utility may give up. I have had that happen. Then the Erase and Install procedure is what you will want to do.
A word of caution: don't every do any unplugging if you can avoid it.
Assuming you can get the iBook to boot eventually, you probably would want to consider a replacement battery and perhaps additional memory. Only you can decide if the cost would be worth it. You could try this site:
http://www.crucial.com
for the memory, and perhaps this site might also be helpful:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
Also, Other World Computing I believe can get replacement batteries.
If in fact the hard drive is gone, then what?
Well you could check with this place:
http://www.macservice.com/mailin.htm
They will give you a quote. Only you can decide if the cost is worth it.
Once it finishes booting, you will see a series of screens connected with the installation process. You have two choices: you can either try to repair what is there, or you can choose the erase and install procedure.
If you want to try repairing what is there, when you see an options buttons, click that, and run Disk Utility. Click Disk First Aid, and select Repair Disk. Rerun that procedure until you get a message saying no errors were found. Then Repair Permissions, and when that finishes restart normally.
It's possible though that the hard drive may be so messed up that the Disk Utility may give up. I have had that happen. Then the Erase and Install procedure is what you will want to do.
A word of caution: don't every do any unplugging if you can avoid it.
Assuming you can get the iBook to boot eventually, you probably would want to consider a replacement battery and perhaps additional memory. Only you can decide if the cost would be worth it. You could try this site:
http://www.crucial.com
for the memory, and perhaps this site might also be helpful:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
Also, Other World Computing I believe can get replacement batteries.
If in fact the hard drive is gone, then what?
Well you could check with this place:
http://www.macservice.com/mailin.htm
They will give you a quote. Only you can decide if the cost is worth it.
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