Ibook will not boot up

Hello
This is my first post, I am excited to have help from so many gurus. I have an iBook that turns on, but stays on the welcome screen with the dail spinning. Nothing happens after that, and the system will just stay like that for hours. Any ideas to fix this?

I have been having this same exact problem also. I hear the whizzing sound and when I try to turn my computer on it sits there with the dial spinning for maybe a minute or two but then just goes to a solid blue screen. At first if I tried a few times it would load up, but once I was online for a while it would just freeze up forcing me to turn it off. This has been going on maybe 4 days, but as of last night, it wont boot up at all. I dont have another mac to load my info on to, any other suggestions?

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Ibook will not boot PLEASE HELP!!!!

Hi,
First the ibook booted then would come up with the kernel error: square box with "you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the restart button......
I then booted to single user mode and ran fsck -y which eventually came up with the all clear "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK"
I then restarted the system which booted to the blue screen with some quirky graphics towards the top. It will now not boot into single user mode, just black screen or multi-coloured stripy screen. When booting from the CD drive the sceen is just blue or black.
Okay, I have connected the ibook via fire wire to a powerbook, and re-booted the ibook in terminal mode which brings up the fire wire connect symbol on screen.
After a while the system stalls showing part of the symbol and the connection is frozen. I have tried to re-install tiger using the powerbook to initiate as the ibook will not. However, it freezes at 50% of install.
I changed the ram to iliminate a ram failure, however... still the same.
While I was in terminal mode I erased the disk using the disk utility from the PB and then ran the install again... still froze.
This looks more serious than I thought. I'm now thinking that it could be the hard drive or worse. I have tried to use the apple support phone # and it does not seem to work, 1800 275 2273.
I'm having some real bad luck here. Any ideas?

I ran the apple hard ware test disc. The quick test found no errors. The extended test freezes up completely. Now I'm really stumed. The logic board came up with know errors.
When the system froze on the extended test. I falsed a re-boot. However the screen went black so I could not run the test again. It seems like a time thing... the ibook can only run for a short period before it freezes. Then it has to shut down for a while before it can run again

Ibook will not boot

My ibook G4 will not boot up it satops at a blank white screen... I've tried resetting the PMU by using the shift-ctrl-option-power and restarting but no luck. Any ideas??
Thanks

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
If the iBook is on, shut it off.
Push the power button, and as the startup chime is ending, hold down the x key. This should allow you to boot into OS X.
If this doesn't work, check out these links to articles on recovering from the flashing question mark:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/openfirmware.html

IBook will not boot from CD

Disk utility has found problems. Specifically it returned this info:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
I have tried to restart the iBook using the original restore CD, the original install CD, the Leopard CD, the Tiger CD and Norton Utilities CD. The computer will read the discs but will not boot from them so I can't find a way to repair the effected volume.
Tried Parameter Ram but feel there are deeper problems; just don't know how to get to them.

knateb, Welcome to the discussion area!
Just for the record, your iBook shipped with a version of OS X somewhere between OS 10.4.2 and OS 10.4.4. Therefore it will never boot from a retail Tiger (10.4) disc.
Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
Have you tried resetting the open firmware? The procedure is
Start up into Open Firmware by pressing and holding the Command-Option-O-F key combination during startup.
At the Open Firmware prompt, type: reset-nvram
Press Return.
At the Open Firmware prompt, type: reset-all
Press Return.

Ibook will not Boot - goes to DOS, error message inside

Hi folks,
The old ibook (late 2004 model) is slowing down more and more, and yesterday refused to boot after crashing.
I left it booting on its blue screen for a while and it eventually went to a black dos screen with the following message:
SystemStarter[47]: The following StartUpItems failed to properly start:
/System/Library/StartUpItems/PrintingServices
- execution of Startup script failed
Now i'm assuming the problem is with the start up script, so I've looked around and done a few things suggested.
For example:
1. Reset the PMU ~ Shift - Control - Option - Power, waited for 5 secs, then rebooted, same problem.
2. Ran single user commands as detailed here http://missionitgroup.com/blog/?p=1490
Tried this twice to make sure, same thing happened. When checking the disk for errors (/sbin/fsck -fy) it would not find any volumes.
Also it would not run repairPermissions, it just kept giving me the options under diskutil, but not running the repair (Im assuming this may be due to it not being able to find any volumes)
3. Someone has suggested running the Mac from its original startup OS X DVD.
The problem is that there is a DVD (movie) already in the drive and pressing eject does not eject it.
4. I put the ibook into Firewire mode with it attached to my iMac. The iMac could see the DVD that was in the ibook drive but could not see the ibooks harddrive.
sooooo!!!!! a bit lost as where to go from here, any help would be greatly appreciated!?

Drewdrops,
That is a link for a SATA (Serial ATA) drive) which will not work. You need a PATA or Parallel ATA drive, also called ATA, Ultra ATA or IDE drive. The drive in the link you sent is also a 3.5" drive. You will need a 2.5" notebook drive for your iBook.
After you get the new HD installed, you will have to boot from your Leopard install DVD, go to Disk Utilities again, select the drive in the list of volumes and click on the 'partition' button. select 1 partition (unless you would like more than one volume), make sure that "Mac OS Extended (Journelled)" is the format selected and then click 'partition'. You can then quit Disk Utility, and continue the installation. If you click on the 'options' button in the first install pane, you will see the button, pre-selected, that says 'installs OS X for the first time'. That is the correct choice.
After the install is complete, you'll get the welcome window, set up your account, and get going on your iBook. Immediately go to software update in System Preferences and begin installing the myriad of updates. After each install and restart, return to software update again and again untill it finally says that "you are up to date". This entire process can take hours, but stick with it. One more thing that is very important.... After you are finished with updates, open Disc Utility in the Utilities folder that is within your Applications folder and drag that icon down to the dock. Open it, select your HD volume to the left (the upper one with numbers, not the sub-volume) and then click "Repair Disk Permissions". Apple recommends doing this after each time you install updates and generally at least once a month after that. The instructor in an OS X class that I once took, said that you should repair disk permissions every week.
To me, all of you symptoms would point to a failed hard drive and a replacement would most likely take care of the problem. Are there ever any guarantees, though?
Is there an Apple Store close to your location? You could make an appointment at their "Genius Bar" for a free check-up. They will look at your iBook, tell you what is wrong and how much it will cost to repair it at their facility. You are not required to have it repaired there. It's just s service they offer. Look at the bottom of the Apple Store or Support page. I believe there is information about making an appointment.
Let me know how it goes.
Randy

Ibook will not boot..blank blue screenl

That pretty much says it all. I've consulted the Apple Support doc on this, and I'm unable to boot in Safe mode, Single-User mode or Verbose mode. It simply will not go beyond the blank blue screen. (Needless to say, I'm posting from my husband's iBook.)
This started tonight when I booted up, signed in and had Safari launched. I launched iTunes, clicked on the podcast section of my library, selected a file and clicked the "i" for Info on the episode. Next I got the spinning beach ball. Unable to use Safari or iTunes and unable to even Force quit either of them thru Finder, I pushed and held the power button to Restart. And after that, it's been nothing.
Any other suggestions? Other than an Archive and Install? That is if I can find the install disks, which seem to be misplaced at the moment....

An update...
I'm not sure why I couldn't target my drive from husband's iBook, but it did work on Mac at the office. I selected my "bad" drive in Disk Utility on the work Mac and selected Repair Disk. When finished, it informed me that no repairs were necessary. I was able to copy off my files from the drive to rescue some items that were not backed up.
What does this mean, if no repairs were needed? Does that indicate that the drive is OK and the motherboard is bad? Or do I need to repair directory with something like Disk Warrior or perhaps reinstall the OS.
Thanks again for any assistance.

IBook will not boot - blank blue screen

I am a bit desperate and clueless. My iBook G3 500mhz OS10.3.9 will not book. When I was doing the latest update for security and QT it crashed. Now, when I start it I gets stuck on a blank blue screen. I tried to boot it from the panther 10.3 install CDs but no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

maxit,
many thanks! the problem when i boot into safe mode and prompted for user name and password, it is not recognized. i keep getting a message of incorrect password and don't know how to get around it. this all started during the latest security download.
frustrating...

Ibook will not boot HELP!!!!

Hi,
First the ibook booted then would come up with the kernel error: square box with "you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the restart button......
I then booted to single user mode and ran fsck -y which eventually came up with the all clear "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK"
I then restarted the system which booted to the blue screen with some quirky graphics towards the top. It will now not boot into single user mode, just black screen or multi-coloured stripy screen. When booting from the CD drive the sceen is just blue or black.
Has anyone any ideas what this could be

You are having kernel panics as shown in this Apple doc.#106227.
Do everything, in order, in Dr.Smokes Resolving Kernel Panics and don't leave out any steps.
Quote from Dr.Smoke "My FAQ is a roadmap: start at the beginning and work through to the end, following the instruction in the order specified, including the "If all else fails..." section if a cause or resolution is not found in an earlier troubleshooting step therein"
Here's more at a brody's KP site.
To get things going, try things in Apple doc.#106464.
Cheers!
DALE

Ibook will not boot into OS or off disc

I have a G3/500 ibook, it turns on and the display seems fine, but it won't boot into the OS on the HD or off a disc. I replaced the HD with one which i know works, still nothing, so i booted with volume select from a firewire dvd drive (the cd drive on the ibook is dead) it shows the HD and its name as well as the OSX disc or tech tool pro disc thats in the drive, but when i click on any of them, it restarts the volume select screen. Anyone know what my problem is or how to fix it? Thanks!

You need to select the startup volume you want and then click on the straight arrow button (not the circular one). Clicking on the circular button searches for startup volumes again, and it sounds like that is what is happening.

IBook will NOT boot from Combo Drive

Hi all,
I'm trying to boot from my Tiger install DVD using the usual method - holding down "C" while pressing the power key. The DVD drive never even spins up. All I get is a gray screen with the apple - no spinning bars.
This occurred after the latest security update trashed all logins on the machine (G4 iBook, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, 10.4.9) Immediately after entering a user password, loginwindow would crash, followed by mdimport, followed by crashserver I could briefly boot using command-S, but that stopped working (blue screen).
I then booted of the Tiger DVD, ran Disk Utility, Hardware Profiler, and used terminal to do "nvram boot-args="-v". Disk utility showed no permission or disk problems, and the profiler showed everything was there that was supposed to be there.
Next, I did an archive-and-install. The Tiger DVD passed its verification, the installation appeared to proceed normally, the system rebooted at the end, and up came the gray screen.
All subsequent boots only came up as far as the gray screen. I reset the parameter ram (alt-command-p-r-power), waiting for three beeps. I then tried to boot off the DVD, and now the machine doesn't even spin the drive up.
I have also reset the PMU following the directions on the apple knowledge base.
Is there something I've missed? I do not have another mac to try Target mode. Any suggestions would be welcome!
TIA,
dan
white iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Another opton is to pop in the disk, restart, holding down the OPTION key, select the disk, and click the lower-right arrow. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106178 has the details.

My mom's IBOOK late 2001 G4 will not boot

Hi. My Mom's Ibook will not boot up. She was trying to download something, she doesn't remember what, and somehow froze the boot. I tried to get into safe mode by holding down the shift key but that didn't work. I tried the turn off/on didn't work. I have the same book and it runs perfectly. I also tried to recover from a disc (purchased not bootleg) I have tried the following: OS X 10, recovery 1-4, appplications, hardware test and nothing happens. I used an external CD rom just in case. The ibook turns on, the logo appears and the cursor just spins- for hours. I have no idea what to try next. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. I am hoping not to have to send it in. If you need anymore info, please just ask. I will respond as quickly as possible. Thank you!

Hello and welcome to the support community
What version of Mac OS is this iBook running?
You say late 2001, that would indicate a ibook G3.
Try resetting the PMU by following this guide http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431
See if that helps first.

IBook will not start up. Can anyone help please?

My iBook will not boot up anymore. It makes the usual startup sound, then goes to a gray screen with the Apple icon. Does anyone know what is wrong? I have all my homework on there. Most of it is backed up on my flash disk, but I have some other things not on my flash disk. When it did work, the computer would freeze every time I would launch Word to complete a homework assignment. The computer has just been acting goofy lately. Any suggestions on what I should do? Thanks.
Bwicki

I would put in your Mac OS X install disk, restart the iBook and hold down on the "c" key. This should make your computer startup from the install disk. This will open the Mac OS X installer first and may ask you to choose a language. Pick the language you want to use and continue. At the next screen, don't continue to install Mac OS X but choose to open the Disk Utility from the Installer menu. When the Disk Utility is open, select your hard drive on the left-hand side and then choose to "repair disk" from the button on the right-hand side. Is there anything to repair? Is the Disk Utility able to repair it? When you're done, you can simply quit the Disk Utility and then quit the Installer to restart back to your iBook's hard drive.
Hopefully the Disk Utility can repair any trouble it finds. If it can't, you may need to invest in a third party utility like . If it doesn't find anything that needs to be repaired, there may be something else going wrong... Let us know what you find out.
-Doug

I want to wipe iBook of it's content, but it will not boot up from DVD

Can someone tell me how I clear off the content of iBook and install the basic set of the applications? I have the original OS 9 disks but they will not boot up with these. I have gradually upgraded the OS so I don't have disks to match 10.4.11.
I want to give this away, as I bought new MacBook Pro recently and I have all of the files on the new computer, (and on another hard drive).
Thank you for any help from out there.

No problem; I usually answer good questions already solved. (It's for the search engine.) Here's how to wipe a corporate or government ATA hard drive.
Should you be concerned about spies, industrial and foreign, or even you own personal information, there is a standard method of erasing ATA disks that contain government classified information. Most ATA disks have it built in (and is a concern when purchasing computers for classified research). It's extreme, but sometimes necessary: information otherwise remains stored on 'bad' blocks, &c.
At one time, only the DOS program HDDerase activated the secure erase in ROM. For Mac users, the Linux program 'hdparm' (which has other uses) will do this from a Live Linux distribution on CD (unless you can boot a USB Flash Drive).'Darwin' might have it.
How to Nuke an ATA Hard Drive
http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATASecureErase
Note that, if you stop the process part way though, the disk may not be usable again (except to spies). Also, nothing is guaranteed.
If Darwin doesn't have it, or if it doesn't work, LiveCD distributions, such as Mint, Berry, & those of major distributions can be found here:
Linux Release Watch
http://distrowatch.com/

Ibook G4 will not boot up

Help- My ibook G4 will not boot up. When I Turn the computer on the apple symbol shows up and the clock continues to spin. I tried to start it up from the disk and at first I could select my hard drive, but then the start up failed. When I tried to start it up again I was no longer able to select my hard drive.
From there I ran the hardware test function and when it tested the memory I got an error message MEM/104/.../BUILTIN. I can't remember the exact message but that is the part that I do remember.
Does anyone have any idea what is wrong with my computer?

Hi rdconners
That sounds like your onboard RAM is defective. Unfortunately that RAM is not replaceable only the logic board it sits on.
If you add some RAM to the single expansion slot you will be able to get it going again.
regards roam

Ibook g3 will not boot in os 9

I just repartitioned the hard drive of my old tray-loading ibook. I loaded os 10.4 in one partition and want to load os 9 in another. The problem is the machine will not boot from an os 9 cd. I've tried a couple of different os 9 system cds, but none are recognized as bootable (either by restarting holding the c key or option key or in the startup disk system preference).
I know I selected the option of installing os 9 drivers when I reformatted the drive (but that shouldn't matter, as I'm trying to boot from cd).
Before I re-formatted I had a working os 9 partition.
Thanks for any pointers.
ibook dual-usb g3 500mz Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Chuck:
Unlike OS X, OS 9 can be copied by dragging from another computer or from a backup on CD or an external HDD. However, you must have OS 9 drivers installed. All you need to do it to drag the System Folder and the OS 9 Applications folder.
Another option would be to boot from the OS X install disk holding down the "C" key. Go to the installer menu and open Disk Utility. Erase the partition in question. Then try booting from the OS 9 installer. Again, OS 9 drivers must be installed or you have to reformat the whole HDD.
While OS X and OS 9 can live together happily on the same HDD/Partition, having it on a separate partition allows you to startup in OS 9 and retain OS X as your default boot drive by Option Booting.
Good luck.
cornelius

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