PleaSE HELP! Ibook G4 won't start up!

Hi,
I am a stay at home mom and my husband is a total mac geek, but I am ready to kill him right now. He has always taken care of any probs etc, but a few weeks ago my ibook g4 was left on, shut though so it was sleeping for a few days while I was away. I can't remember if it was charging or not. Now when I restart it that day, I go from the ding to gray with the earth blinking in a box, to a folder with a blinking ? to a folder blinking with the mac face thingy to the gray apple and turny thing while the fan is running and that is it. I did not know that I should've been backing things up and all of the digital pics of our wedding and everything from my son's birth until he is two is on there and I don't want to lose those pics. My husband managed to lose the start up and other discs that came with it. I have some discs from my old g3 ibook if any of those would help, please let me know. I am using my husband's powerbook g4 right now, and we also have those disks. He is so meticulious about his discs, I am wondering if we never got them. We have an Apple hardware test for his power book and one for the g3 ibook, and we have mac OS 10X v 10.2 install discs one and two. We cannot afford a new laptop, and he uses his for work. My old g3 is operable too. Thanks for any advice.

I am having a similar problem, but worse. The laptop sudddenlly began responding extremely slowly to commands (5 minutes or longer), so I opened up Disk Utililty and did "repair permissions". The program froze within 1 minute of start up. I restarted with Tiger Install Disk>disk utility>repair disk and within minutes, in red appears the line "Keys out of order". It then starts the "rebuilding of catalog b tree" and within minutes of that, the following error message appears "HD couldn't be repaired underlying task reported failure on exit". I tried a couple of more times, and still got the same message. Now, I can't even boot up the computer. I get the grey screen and Apple logo and the turning "fan" and then within minutes it just turns itself off. Until May, the computer was under warranty but it spent a couple of months in Apple repair in February waiting for a new logicboard and hard drive. I'll take it back to my Apple repair place and see what they can do for me again. I hope that with the new hard drive, Apple will extend my Applecare. Now my problem is this: My daughter has irreplaceable photos and music that I wasn't able to transfer to our external drive before this all happened ( know...I tell her all the time to back up, but she never listens). I tried the use the firewire target disk mode and even though the firewire symbol shows up on the "target computer" (the iBook), the iBook HD doesn't show up on the "host" computer (a G4iMac) desktop. I've checked the support docs to see what could be the problem, and see that m should have Firewire 2.3 installed on my iMac, but all I get when I do the system profiler is to see that firewire bus is 400mb/ps but no extension or application for Firewire 2.3. When I tried to download it off from Apple, my computer starts up the Classic Operating system, so that can't be right. No other fixes mentioned so that I can pull off the files I need to save from the iBook. Can you help me out?

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So i hold down the Power button to reset it, then turn it on, the little rectangles are there when the grey screen with the apple on it, then it goes to a blue screen and stops
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Couple of things I'd do here:
1. Restart your computer.
2. While the computer restarts, press the trackpad button and hold it down through the boot process. During the normal bootup process, this should tell the computer to eject the CD.
After that, follow these steps:
1. Turn off your computer again.
2. Unplug all cables including the power cable
3. Take out the laptop's battery.
4. Press the power button and hold it down for 5 seconds.
5. Put back in the battery.
6. Plug in the power cord
7. Press the power button to start the computer
8. As soon as you here the "bong" noise (the startup noise) press and hold down the following keys: Command Option P R (that's four keys all together including the letters P and R)
9. In a few seconds, the computer will go "bong" again (i.e., present the startup sound). Once that happens, let go of the keys and let the computer finish booting.
Did this work to solve your screen problems?

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Hi there,
this morning my macbook was not blocked and i forced to shut down, then i cannot start up and i keep on getting this screen that i attach. I tried to boot in safe mode but it won't let me, also make a hardware cheek and won't let me either, please help me , i can't work with out my computer
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If you want to preserve the data on the startup drive, and it's not already backed up, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is not fully functional. You need an external hard drive or other storage device to hold the data.
1. Start up from the Recovery partition, from Internet Recovery, or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.” The article refers to starting up from a DVD, but the procedure in Recovery mode is the same. You don't need a DVD if you're running OS X 10.7 or later.
2. If Method 1 fails because of disk errors, then you may be able to salvage some of your files by copying them in the Finder. If you already have an external drive with OS X installed, start up from it. Otherwise, if you have Internet access, follow the instructions on this page to prepare the external drive and install OS X on it. You'll use the Recovery installer, rather than downloading it from the App Store.
3. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, start the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
4. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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Please help me. I have no AppleCare so I can't call them.
My mother bought me a MacBook pro earlier this year but we didn't purchase apple care. Right now I'm having a problem with startup. Everytime I try to start my MacBook Pro up, it automatically goes to os x utilities. It never did this before and I don't know what to do. Can someone please walk me through how to get my computer back to normal? I really can't afford another computer right now.

If it's less then a year old it's still under warranty and Apple will fix it free. In fact you can go to the apple.com, support and chat with someone who could probably tell you how to fix it.

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After I installed SL on my iMac, everything was working perfectly fine. Then, it would start to lock up. I ran disk utility and repaired all permissions. Was still getting random lockups, but nothing catastrophic.
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Hello a:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
It sounds very much like a hardware problem. Take it in (or call) for diagnosis and repair.
Barry

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Your very welcome.
You would need to apply pressure to the left side of the track pad about 2cm out. I found applying pressure to both sides of the track pad more successful. All you have to do is push down on the case, while making sure your iBook is on a flat surface. If you have someone willing to help you, you can get them to apply the pressure while you back up your files. Other methods would involve tempory repair or removal of the hard drive. If you remove the hard drive to be read by another computer, you would need a cady to put the drive into. These caddies are cheap enough. Would suggest you use a USB cady and plug your drive into that, which would act as USB external drive. I'd suggest you get a USB cady to remove your files, be careful to what operating system you have on the computer you are using to get the files off. Windows OS won't read a MAC OS X drive (extended journal format) It would need to be another Mac or a Linux PC.
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http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-do-i-get-my-broken-g4-ibook-fixed.html
Here is an example of a USB cady
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Best of luck!

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because there is absolutely no mention in my System Preferences of either Users & Groups nor Start Up Items.
John,
William's solution was much easier - just for completeness sake: The preferences panes to edit your startup items moved between the Mac OS X updates: I forgot that the "Users&Groups" preference pane used to be called "Users" in Mac OS X 10.6; it is the panel that you use to create new User accounts; and earlier systems had a separate preferences panel "Login" to enable and to disable the applications that are launched at login. Both are now combined in "Users&Groups". Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase with the wrong Preferences panel.
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to whom ever may read this.
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Hello Templemeads,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1367
Have a nice day,
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Help my IPOD won't start PLEASE HELP

It gives me the apple screen and then switches into the foloer with an exclamation point and i don't know how to get it out. I have tried restarting, and plugging it into the computer doesn't do anything. It is charged, please help.

Hello,
If a sad iPod icon or an exclamation point and folder icon appears on your iPod’s screen, or with sounds of clicking or HD whirring, it is usually the sign of a hard drive problem and you have the power to do something about it now. Your silver bullet of resolving your iPod issue – is to restore your iPod to factory settings.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983
If you're having trouble, try these steps at different levels one at a time until the issue is resolved. These steps will often whip your iPod back into shape.
Make sure you do all the following “TRYs”
A. Try to wait 30 minutes while iPod is charging.
B. Try another FireWire or USB through Dock Connector cable.
C. Try another FireWire or USB port on your computer .
D. Try to disconnect all devices from your computer's FireWire and USB ports.
E. Try to download and install the latest version of iPod software and iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
For old and other versions of iPod updater for window you can get here
http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=7369
F. Try these five steps (known as the five Rs) and it would conquer most iPod issues.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
G. Try to put the iPod into Disk Mode if it fails to appear on the desktop
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
If none of these steps address the issue, you may need to go to Intermediate level listed below in logical order. Check from the top of the lists to see if that is what keeping iPod from appearing on your computer in order for doing the Restore.
Intermediate Level
A. Try to connect your iPod with another computer with the iPod updater pre-installed.
B. Still can’t see your iPod, put it in Disk Mode and connect with a computer, instead of doing a Restore on iPod Updater. Go and format the iPod instead.
For Mac computer
1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”
For Window computer
Go to folder “My Computer”
Hope you can see your iPod there and right click on the iPod
Choose “Format”. Ensure the settings are at “Default” and that “Quick Format” is not checked
Now select “Format”
Eject your iPod and do a Reset
Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”
In case you do not manage to do a “Format” on a window computer, try to use some 3rd party disk utility software, e.g.“HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool”.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=501330&tstart=0
C. Windows users having trouble with their iPods should locate a Mac user. In many cases when an iPod won't show up on a PC that it will show up on the Mac. Then it can be restored. When the PC user returns to his computer the iPod will be recognized by the PC, reformatted for the PC, and usable again. By the way, it works in reverse too. A Mac user often can get his iPod back by connecting it to a PC and restoring it.
Tips
a. It does not matter whether the format is completed or not, the key is to erase (or partly) the corrupted firmware files on the Hard Drive of the iPod. After that, when the iPod re-connected with a computer, it will be recognized as an fresh external hard drive, it will show up on the iTunes 7.
b. It is not a difficult issue for a Mac user to find a window base computer, for a PC user, if they can’t find any Mac user, they can go to a nearest Apple Shop for a favor.
c. You may need to switch around the PC and Mac, try to do several attempts between “Format” and “Restore”
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2364921&#2364921
Advance Level
A. Diagnostic mode solution
If you have tried trouble shooting your iPod to no avail after all the steps above, chances are your iPod has a hardware problem. The iPod's built-in Diagnostic Mode is a quick and easy way to determine if you have a "bad" iPod.
You need to restart your iPod before putting it into Diagnostic Mode. Check that your hold switch is off by sliding the switch away from the headphone jack. Toggle it on and off to be safe.
Press and hold the following combination of buttons simultaneously for approximately 10 seconds to reset the iPod.
iPod 1G to 3G: "Menu" and "Play/Pause"
iPod 4G+ (includes Photo, Nano, Video, and Mini): "Menu" and "Select"
The Apple logo will appear and you should feel the hard drive spinning up. Press and hold the following sequence of buttons:
iPod 1G to 3G: "REW", "FFW" and "Select"
iPod 4G+ (includes Photo, Nano, Video, and Mini): "Back" and "Select"
You will hear an audible chirp sound (3G models and higher) and the Apple logo should appear backwards. You are now in Diagnostic Mode. Navigate the list of tests using "REW" and "FFW". The scroll wheel will not function while in diagnostic mode. For further details on Diagnostic mode can be found at http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/
Try to do the 5in1, HDD R/W and HDD scan tests. Some successful cases have been reported after the running the few tests under the Diagnostic mode. In case it does not work in your case, and the scan tests reports show some errors then it proves your iPod has a hardware problem and it needs a repairing service.
B. Format your iPod with a start disk
I have not tried this solution myself, I heard that there were few successful cases that the users managed to get their iPod (you must put your iPod in disk mode before connecting with a computer) mounted by the computer, which was booted by a system startup disk. For Mac, you can use the Disk Utility (on the Tiger OS system disk), for PC user, you can use the window OS system disk. Try to find a way to reformat your iPod, again it does not matter which format (FAT32, NTFS or HFS+) you choose, the key is to erase the corrupted system files on the iPod. Then eject your iPod and do a Reset to switch out from Disk Mode. Reboot your computer at the normal way, connect your iPod back with it, open the iPod updater, and hopefully your iPod will appear there for the Restore.
If none of these steps address the issue, your iPod may need to be repaired.
Consider setting up a mail-in repair for your iPod http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/
Or visit your local Apple Retail Store http://www.apple.com/retail/
In case your iPod is no longer covered by the warranty and you want to find a second repairing company, you can try iPodResQ at your own risk
http://www.ipodresq.com/index.php
Just in case that you are at the following situation
Your iPod warranty is expired
You don’t want to pay any service charges
You are prepared to buy a new one
You can’t accept the re-sell value of your broken iPod
Rather than leave your iPod as paper-weight or throw it away.
You can try the following, but again, only do it as your last resort and at your own risk.
Warning !!!! – It may or may not manage to solve your problem, and with a risk that you may further damage your iPod, which end up as an expensive paper weight or you need to pay more higher repairing cost. Therefore, please re-consider again whether you want to try the next level
Last Resort Level
1. . Disconnecting the Hard Drive and battery inside the iPod – Warning !! Your iPod warranty will be waived once you open the iPod.
In Hong Kong there are some electronic shops offering an iPod service for Sad iPod, the first thing they do is to open up the iPod’s case and disconnecting the battery and the Hard Drive from the main board of the iPod. Wait for 5-10 minutes and reconnecting them back. The reason behind which I can think of is to do a fully reset of a processor of the iPod. In case you want do it itself and you believe that you are good on fixing the electronics devices and have experience to deal with small bits of electronic parts, then you can read the following of how to open the iPod case for battery and HDD replacement (with Quicktimes)
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/directory.html
2.Press the reset button on the Hard Drive inside the iPod – Suggestion from Kill8joy
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2438774#2438774
Have I tried these myself? No, I am afraid to do it myself as I am squeamish about tinkering inside electronic devices, I have few experiences that either I broke the parts (which are normally tiny or fragile) or failed to put the parts back to the main case. Therefore, I agree with suggestion to have it fixed by a Pro.
2. Do a search on Google and some topics on this discussion forum about “Sad iPod”
Exclamation point and folder and nothing else
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3597173#3597173
Exclamation point and folder and nothing else
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2831962#2831962
What should I do with my iPod? Send it or keep it?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=469080&tstart=0
Strange error on iPod (probably death)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435160&start=0&tstart=0
Sad Face on iPod for no apparent reason
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=336342&start=0&tstart=0
Meeting the Sad iPod icon
http://askpang.typepad.com/relevanthistory/2004/11/meeting_thesad.html#comment-10519524
Sad faced iPod, but my computer won’t recognize it?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2236095#2236095
iPod Photo: unhappy icon + warranty question
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2233746#2233746
4th Gen iPod Users - are we all having the same problem?
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2235623#2235623
Low Battery, and clicking sounds
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2237714#2237714
Sad faced iPod, but my computer won’t recognize it
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2242018#2242018
Sad iPod solution
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=412033&tstart=0
Re: try to restore ipod and it says "can't mount ipod"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=443659&tstart=30
iPod making clicking noise and is frozen
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2420150#2420150
Cant put it into disk mode
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3786084#3786084
I think my iPod just died its final death
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3813051
Apple logo & monochrome battery stay
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3827167#3827167
I am not suggesting that you should follow as well, but just read them as your reference. You are the person to make the call.
Finally, I read a fair comments from dwb, regarding of slapping the back of the iPod multiple times
Quote “This has been discussed numerous times as a 'fix'. It does work, at least for a while. In fact I remember using the same basic trick to revive Seagate and Quantam drives back in the mid to late 1980's. Why these tiny hard drives go bad I don't know - could be the actuator gets stuck in place or misaligned. Could be the platter gets stuck or the motor gets stuck. 'Stiction' was a problem for drives back in the 80's. Unfortunately the fix can cause damage to the platter so we temporarily fix one problem by creating another. But I know of two instances where a little slap onto the table revived the iPods and they are still worked a year or more later.”UnQuote

IBook G4 won't start up, blue screen death! HELP!

I have an iBook G4 (1.2ghz). It has a new hard drive (5 months old), 2 gigs of ram (5 months old), and a new battery (2 months old). I was checking some baseball scores today, and everything froze, as if the hard drive had died. I tried to reboot, and it got stuck at a blue screen. I tried to reboot 4-5 times, and once it worked! I tried running my backup software, and it froze, without backing up my files. Since then, I have:
zapped the pram,
tried to start from a CD
tried to start up in safe mode
nothing gets me past the blue screen of death. I can't even fathom why it won't start from a CD. Is my computer dead? is the hard drive dead? what is let to do?

for those who come across this - and have similar issues - i have an ibook g4 - 14". I used the shim method described by http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/ . While he used this method on a 12", I used it on a 14", and it seems to have worked. The computer has been up and running for nearly 4 hours and everything has been backed up. I used 2 3/4" rubber gripping pads purchased at true value for less than $2. The tools cost me $25 from ifixit.com. Beats a reball, and certainly beats a $300 logic board replacement (not including labor!).

IBook G4 won't start up, can't find HD

My iBook won't start up. It gets to the grey apple screen and nothing else happens. Sometimes when I try to start up I briefly get the icon with the question mark inside a folder.
I tried reseting the PMU and nothing happened. I instaled the MacOS 10.4 installer CD starting up from the CD, tried disk utility but says it cannot repair disk. As a last resort I figured trying to reinstal OS X but in does not find the hard drive.
I'm kind of desperate. Would love to save some files but I'm also open to any suggestions.
Thanks in advanced.

HI Tanya,
Go here for help with the flashing question mark: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440
The flashing question mark indicates that when you boot the iBook it can't find the drive to boot from... Shut down your Mac. While holding down the C key, press the power button, and insert your restore disk all at the same time. Keep holding the C key until you see the Apple logo on the screen. An Installer window will open, select English. From the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. When that window opens, select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart. It can take a minute or two for your Mac to find the startup volume, have patience.
The reason it can't repair the disk is because it couldn't find the start up volume to repair. If you can get it to boot into the hard disk, you can then run Disk Utility from the restore disk and check for any errors and repair them.
Carolyn

Please Help iBook dual USB crash

Hi everyone
I have a big problem with my ibook (dual USB) 700mhz OSX 10.3.9
Since last night when I try to start it, after completing loading all the stuff and showing also the desktop it crashes and asks me to restart holding down the power button or sometimes it freezes and I have anyway to restart it.
I tried to boot from the OS install CD ROM holding the "C" key but the system keeps booting from the HD.
The same comes when I try to run the hardware test CD. It just doesn't work with the "C" and the system try to boot normally from HD. (What have I to do to boot from a CD???)
I can just say that my HD (20GB)was almost full and that two days ago I changed the firmware of the monitor installing a patch to have a mirroring display.
Please help me, next week I have to travel for work and I need my iBook!
Thank you very much.

Here again...
Last time I tried to boot the system freezed and came out a window with strange (to me) codes...
System failure: cpu=0; code=00000008 (unknown failure code)
latest crash info for cpu 0:
exception state (sv=0x2F68F000)
PC=0x000940B0; MSR= 0x00001030; DAR: 0xFC400000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00093F8C; R1=0x8E608741; XCP= 0x00000098 (System Failure)
Backtrace:
backtrace terminated - unaligned frame address: 0x8E608741
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2F68F000)
PC=0x0008C788; MSR= 0x00043000; DAR: 0xFC400000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0008AF24; R1=0x8E608821; XCP= 0x00000008 (0x200 Machine check)
Backtrace:
backtrace terminated - unaligned frame address: 0x8E608821
Exception state (sv=0x21FE6500)
PC=0x00000000; MSR= 0x0000D030; DAR: 0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP= 0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version>
Darwin Kernel Version 7. 9. 0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517. 12. 7.obj-1/RELEASE_PPC
Memory access exception (1, 0, 0)
ethernet MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address: 0. 0. 0. 0
Waiting for remote debugger connection.
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