Blinking Earth on Start Up

I usually don’t restart very often.
On restart of my G5 iMac rev A,
I got a Blinking Earth- maybe 3 times.
then a Blinking smiling Mac alternating between a folder with a question mark, 3 times.
My regular start up comes on right after that.
I got this before and after 10.4.4 and 10.4.5
I did DU and DW before and after with no problems.
Everything is working well, but a Blinking Earth!
I know the alternating means it’s looking for the HD.
I really don’t want to reinstall the system.
Woodie

Hi Woodie,
glad I could be of help with the other problem.
With the iBook it could not only be the logic board but it could also be a failing hard drive or even a severely corrupted disk directory.
You may want to try booting from your 10.2 disks or the system restore disk and running Disk Utility to determine if there is a problem with the drive or not.
Read through step 1 of the following FAQ for more explicit information on how to do this. Don't worry about the other steps listed in the FAQ, just concentrate on step 1.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html

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