My PowerBook G4 will not boot up. It stays in this state of trying to boot up. Everything comes up...all the icons, but you continually have the little spinning gear icon and the screen flashing like it's trying to complete the start up, but it never does.
View 1 RepliesHi 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
When I try to reinstall the system, the picture does not get pushed across to the external monitor meaning I can not see what I am doing and thus can not reinstall
I'm having a problem with my Powerbook G4. I kind of screwed up my drivers because I was an idiot and tried to get some Intel drivers to work on the computer through some cheat thing and now my computer won't boot up. I have an install disk but when I try to reinstall it keeps saying that I need Mac OSX Install Disk 2. I never had to use disk 2 before and I never had one to begin with.
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2FAN/4/8: CPU A INTAKE
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I've read a couple of solutions on how to change the permissions but the thing is that i don't want to screwed up again since i have some data inside that i don't want to miss.
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MAC os X, Mac OSX (10.5.7)
i have macbook white 2007 version when i turn on i can hear start up sound but after that only white screen appeare after that nothing happen my keyboard also not working i try to put mac ox disc but it stuck nothing happen.
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