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Apple ibook help! |
scobarl
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
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Hi all. Looking for a bit of help if anyone knows about ibooks.
I recently bought a second hand G4 ibook and decided to reinstall osx.
I put in disc 1 and selected to install OSX and all components, the machine restarted and seemed to boot from the cd.
Now all I have is a black screen with the cursor stuck in the middle. Cant even eject the disk.
Been like that for 10 mins.
Is this normal or have I killed it.
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whizkidd
Joined: May 14, 2004
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From: India
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Hi.. I belive this is not the standard procedure. I don't think its gone faulty either. As its not responding, you can wait for a while. If nothing happends a hard reboot.Btw, did the reinstall procedure complete?
Here's an useful link for MAC os X reinstall. Hope this helps.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/support/library/software/os-help/reinstall-mac-osx/
EDIT: And yes, remove the CD and then boot.
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[ This Message was edited by: whizkidd on 2008-01-29 13:23 ] |
scobarl
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
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Bugger. Can't eject the disk as F12 isnt responding.
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themarques
Joined: Jan 26, 2003
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From: London, Tokyo,
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Quite simple, restart the machine and make sure the bay where the cd drive is in is facing down (pull of gravity) and franticlly keep pressing the eject button, sounds stupid I know but worked for me many times. wiggle the machine as well whilst doing so. Tell us how u get on.
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drlau9
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: UK, Northamptonshire, Ketterin
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Hi there!
I believe you're mac is having a hdd failure! Have you tried installing another 2.5" drive? If you have a spare hard drive then Id recommend installing that, I believe the G4 still uses the ATA (Not Serial) connection, drives can be up to 12.5mm thick.
Give it a try, If you don't have a spare hdd, plug it into another laptop see if bios would detect the drive.
Another method you could try is,
Press and hold Options button (ALT) immediately after you press the power button and see what drives you can boot up,
If you press and hold c immediately after pressing the power button that enable you to boot via cd.
I had a similar problem with my old g3 ibook.
Derek.
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Posted: 2008-01-29 14:16
