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Dec 2, 2006

during startup, my powerbook will shutdown during the gray screen I've tried booting from an external drive. It goes to a gray screen without an apple logo.I've tried putting it in Target disk mode (to get my files off). But it won't mount on my desktop.Also tried resseting the pram as apple's troubleshooting suggested. nothing differen

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Hi I have a problem with my PowerBook

It boots to BSD (Command Line Interface) instead of OS X (GUI Aqua)

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Please note that the screen on the PowerBook is broke so I can only use it connected to an external monitor

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When I press the volume keys (F4/F5) I see the volume indicator increase/decrease but I do not hear an alert sound.

When I go into System Preferences/Sound, "Internal Speakers" is grayed out under "Sound effects" but "Internal Speakers" shows up under the Output tab.

When I plug in headphones, I get no sound.

I've tried resetting the PRAM and open firmware.

I've tried creating a new user and the new user also has no sound.

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I am runnign Leopard on this machine, version 10.5.6.

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It�s a G4 Power book, running OS 10.4. It suddenly froze on me one day, so I held down the power button to reboot and it hasn�t worked since. One thing that I guess could be relevant is that it was pretty much out of disc space � it had flashed up the warning a few times in recent days and I was in progress of doing a clean up when it went.

What I�ve tried so far:

Normal power up:

Result: Chime, apple logo and spinning logo appear. Stays that way for 4 mins, until screen goes darker grey and �You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.� message appears.

Safe boot (with progress status) � power up holding shift-command-v:

Result: Chime, apple logo appears, nothing else. Stays like this for ~30 mins until I give up and power down.Reseting PRAM and NVRAM � power up holding command-option-p-r

Result: Chime, then restarts and second chime, then does exactly the same as the normal power up.

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