Blue screen, reset pmu, booted up, now no cursor

hello all...i have received a ibook g4 with some issues. i rebooted it, terminal blue screen, decided to reset pmu, came up after power up, and now no cursor. i tried to plug in a mouse. still nothing! any ideas? just trying to get the ibook back up to get the hard drive emptied off. thanks in advance.

Hi.
Two things to try for starters:
First , try a Starting up in Safe Mode
Safe Boot takes longer than normal startup
What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode.
Then re-boot normally.
If the above doesn't fix things so that you can "...get the ibook back up to get the hard drive emptied off" try booting into Target Disk Mode by holding the 'T' key down at start-up and connect it to your Pro with a firewire cable. The iBook's HD should show on the Pro. Run DU from the Pro to erase the iBook's HD. Use the zero out option (once will be enough) to map out any bad blocks. If you are re-installing you can run the install from the Pro too while the iBook is still in TDM.
Have fun,
Adrian

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