Pismo issue...

[Christopher]

Like there isn't enough of those, however this is different. I just installed Panther onto it and all was well. My mom uses it today and all is well, she shuts it down and then she wants me to turn it back on to add some things to her notes(for visitation with the two foster kids' mother, if you can call her one) and it will not boot. It boots to grey screen, after the apple logo and spinny thinger.

It shows the blue screen like you are going to see the loading window but it goes right to a grey screen. I can boot into safe mode fine. I fired up Console and it says my video card is too old. Never have I had it say that.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3343/3333450099_9c2734310f_b.jpg pic for proof

 

[phreakout]

Christopher,

What I would do is first is reset the P-RAM (Command + Option + P + R). Hold those 4 buttons down on the keyboard, until you hear the startup chime about 3 times.

If this doesn't clear it up, you will need to try resetting the NV-RAM. To do this, restart the PowerBook, then go into the Open Firmware mode (Command + Option + O + F). Hold those 4 buttons down, until you see an all white display and text (Mac ROM version, etc.). Next, type in the following lines below:

reset-nvram (Press return)

set-defaults (Press return)

reset-all (Press return)

The PowerBook should restart and hopefully the issue will be fixed. Sometimes you'll have to do this on some occasions, sometimes not.

Let me know if it works for you.

73s de Phreakout.

 

[Christopher]

None of those things worked, I tried them, and the Pram thing isn't an issue because the pram batter is gone and the factory battery that powers the thing is removed. I managed to do an archive and install and that fixed it.... :-/

 

[Gil]

I'll take it if you don't want it.

 

[phreakout]

None of those things worked, I tried them, and the Pram thing isn't an issue because the pram batter is gone and the factory battery that powers the thing is removed. I managed to do an archive and install and that fixed it.... :-/

Interesting. Well I guess software is an issue in this case. I was on the mindset that maybe the P-RAM settings were corrupted due to no backup power from the lithium battery. An outdated or corrupt driver/extension file can be another step to try. At least it's working now.

73s de Phreakout.

 

[sircabulon]

I fired up Console and it says my video card is too old. Never have I had it say that

try booting in verbose mode and you may see that message again. It isn't that your card is too old, it just might be too old for things like quartz extreme or core image. These both will flag this message when trying to boot. I get it every time I boot my Lombard =)

 

[Dan 7.1]

I fired up Console and it says my video card is too old. Never have I had it say that

try booting in verbose mode and you may see that message again. It isn't that your card is too old, it just might be too old for things like quartz extreme or core image. These both will flag this message when trying to boot. I get it every time I boot my Lombard =)

Yeah does the same for my Pismo.

If it works in safe mode then you might consider target-disking it to another machine and re-applying the 10.3.9 combined update from that machine to the Pismo. Doing so for 10.4.9/10/11 has solved several issues for me in the past, and might work for you in this case.