Well now, all sound is gone. Don't know what's going on. I'm going to wipe the whole thing and reformat, and reinstall the things I want on it. I will install one thing at a time and see if there is some kind of software related problem.
The iBook G4 saga continues. I got frustrated trying to get my machine to work and found one just like it on eBay for $30 untested, which turns out to have identical specs to my problem child except it runs just fine. Used my set of appropriate install disks to install Tiger and Classic...
I think that was 10.5, but it also did it with a downloaded copy of 10.4, both when in the disk drive. I have also tried installing with another iBook G4 I just got which is working fine. I also tried it in target disk mode using a 2008 iMac. What's weird is that it looked like that but...
I tried starting it up in Safe mode, and it got to the gray screen with the apple and just stayed there.
I tried removing the additional RAM and starting it up, and it got to the gray screen with the apple and just stayed there.
This may be a clue, on a couple of my repeated tries to install...
Think this would work? Naturally I'm looking to do things as cheaply as possible :)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ADATA-Ultimate-Series-SU650-120GB-Internal-SATA-Solid-State-Drive/392450625057?epid=2298097290&hash=item5b5fe14e21:g:o6sAAOSwU9VfD8OT
I will look into those. What I have found so far indicates that there isn't enough room in this iBook to fit an SSD in an adapter. According to MacTracker the connection in the iBook is Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6).
Good thing my Macbook Pro is with me again, it just needed a new power cord!
The iBook, on the other hand, has problems. I tried installing Leopard directly from the optical drive, no luck. So I tried using my iMac (early 2008) in target disk mode and that didn't work either. It goes so far...
PPC won't boot from USB, only Intel. I have bought on eBay first Leopard retail and then a set of disks from iBook G4 with 10.4.4 with a disk of OS9 for the Classic environment. It won't boot in 9, of course, but it will run OS9 software. Now to find my old copy of KidPix Deluxe...
It looks like this iBook came with 10.4.4 so I don't think a retail copy will work. I tried with an old one I found in my old disk collection and It tried but did not work. It also doesn't help that there seems to be something in the disk drive that whishes when the disk is reading...
Yeah, but that's a lot of work! :) I found a retail copt of Tiger on eBay for not too much. But do you think that's what is going on, just the "wrong" Tiger?
In the interim while I am without my main Mac, I have pulled out an iBook G4 that I haven't touched in a looooong time. I believe it has 10.4 on it. Got the forgotten password sorted out. It starts up until it gets to the screen with the swoopy blue abstract design, does not load any further...