atariangamer
Active member
I got what I thought was an absolute steal today: An iBook G4 in amazing condition for 30$.
I had no assurance on the computer's working state, but was willing to take that shot (I'm in need of another laptop...and G4s seem to be my favorites).
Well, I get it home and plug it in, and surprisingly it charges the battery and would turn on and chime for me. And would go (very slowly) through the motions of booting. It could get to the blue screen and show the Mac OS progress bar thing, and I could move my mouse around...but then it stops there. I never lose control of the mouse, it never freezes. But it also never shows the Finder or anything. Subsequent boots show the same thing.
I think the hard drive is damaged. When running in Target firewire mode, it'll freeze both computers untill I unplug the firewire, at which the iBook stays frozen (and quite silent), and the other computer unfreezes. This thing also has a combo drive, but it won't boot my 10.3 discs, and it won't finish booting the Tiger DVD.
It also has no extra RAM, which might be attributing to the computer's slowness. I'm on the search for some DDR laptop memory, but I've got none at home, so I'm stuck till tomorrow.
Any ideas on what to do? Pram/pmu has been reset.
I had no assurance on the computer's working state, but was willing to take that shot (I'm in need of another laptop...and G4s seem to be my favorites).
Well, I get it home and plug it in, and surprisingly it charges the battery and would turn on and chime for me. And would go (very slowly) through the motions of booting. It could get to the blue screen and show the Mac OS progress bar thing, and I could move my mouse around...but then it stops there. I never lose control of the mouse, it never freezes. But it also never shows the Finder or anything. Subsequent boots show the same thing.
I think the hard drive is damaged. When running in Target firewire mode, it'll freeze both computers untill I unplug the firewire, at which the iBook stays frozen (and quite silent), and the other computer unfreezes. This thing also has a combo drive, but it won't boot my 10.3 discs, and it won't finish booting the Tiger DVD.
It also has no extra RAM, which might be attributing to the computer's slowness. I'm on the search for some DDR laptop memory, but I've got none at home, so I'm stuck till tomorrow.
Any ideas on what to do? Pram/pmu has been reset.