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I have one of those repaired 1.8 G5's running 10.3.9......I too had the box telling me to restart, it went then to a black screen with small type for me to type prompts into it,I used its utilities, it said disk permissions were repaired, LIAR!!! I ran the utilities on the install, and I saw ONE BILLION HP wrong permissions fly by, and it then pronounced the HD dead. I took it to the apple store, after they ran the tests, they pronounced the hard drive dead, and handed me a card to send it off to get the info scraped off the drive. Well, I'd done a back up about a week before, so all I"d lost was the last 48 solid hours of work i'd done. I did stay up again the next night, but only after a nap. I found out I didn't die from disappointment, and continued.
What do I do now? Throw it out? Replace the hard drive? Send it back to apple? It had a message that always came up when i started it, that some usb device was pulling too much power so it was now being shut off, but I never knew what usb port was the culprit. I figured it was hallucinating, but maybe not>?
This mac was one of those where they had to replace what, the mother board? forfree, so I don't know if it still will have that usb glitch if i replace the drive, or not. Also, the speaker port was staticky, which meant to me that the thing wasn't any good either.
Once the hard drive is gone, thats it, right?? No using it for a screen for the ibook or anything like that, huh? Anything?

Replacing the hard rive is not a big deal, you can either do it yourself, or pay someone a small fee to do it. You can get any size you like, and [macsales.com] is a very good place to find them at reasonable prices.
How wise of you to have a backup, in fact, you could take the backup drive, if it's a 3.5" SATA drive, and install that in your computer.
As far as pulling too much power, what was it you had plugged in, and did you reset the SMU by removing every peripheral, turning the machine off, pulling the power cord for 15 seconds, replacing the cord and then restarting?

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