Powerbook won't boot & other strange issues

So, my girlfriend dropped her Powerbook G4 12" a while back while it was running. Now it's having issues booting into OSX 10.5.8. The furthest it will get is the initial boot screen (grey apple logo) after the harddrive cycles a couple times it will restart and do the same thing, it's stuck in a loop. Here's what I've tried so far...
--Open the case & check for damage/loose connections (there were none)
--Boot from 10.5 DVD (unsuccessful, seems like its not being recognized)
--Boot into safe mode
--Boot into target disk mode (most progress so far)
--Installing 10.5.8 combo update in target disk mode
--Zapping PRAM
When I boot into target disk mode, I can read and access all the files on her harddrive from my MacBook. I've even started my macbook up using her harddrive as the startup disk with no issues. Seems to me the harddrive is fine, but maybe the OS is sick, or there is something physically damaged within the PB. I've tried reinstalling 10.5 on her drive using my macbook, but as you know, apple won't let 10.5 install on an external drive. Perhaps the PRAM battery needs replacing?
Thoughts? I'm about out of ideas at this point....

It sounds as though the drop while the machine was running must have damaged its hard drive — most likely the read/write head dinged the platter(s) on impact, and whenever the drive tries to read from or write to the damaged addresses on the disk, the wheels fall off.
I would replace the hard drive and hopefully get the machine up and running again, then put the drive into an external enclosure and try to salvage the data from it a little at a time rather than all at once.

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I've been reading a lot of these forums, but still haven't figured out how to fix it on my laptop. So, I made my own topic.
Anyways. My dad gave me this laptop since he got a new one, so it's a hand-me-down which means I don't have this startup disk that I keep seeing talked about. I've tried Safe Boot, but when I do it with Command + V, it says all sorts of things that I just don't understand, and there is a lot of talk about the Apple Power Management? Such as:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement isn't a valid mach-o (magic is cefaedfe)
error mapping module file com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
can't map com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement in preparation for loading
couldn't alloc class "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement"
Etc, etc. And then the last lines that it ends with say:
BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2
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And it just stays there and doesn't boot up.
I honestly don't know what any of this means, or if it is even relevant to why my PowerBook won't boot past the Apple screen. If you have any information on how I could fix it, that'd be great. Also, if you have any questions that would help you figure it out, ask away and I will answer them.
Thanks a lot.
Message was edited by: MixtapeChick

MixtapeChick:
Welcome to Apple Discussions. Congratulations on your "new" PowerBook. I suggest that you begin with this combination procedure:
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously later.
• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command + Option + P + R keys immediately after the startup chime.
• Hold keys down until you hear the startup chime for the third time.
• Release the keys and immediately hold down Shift key to start up in Safe Mode.
• Log in and empty Trash.
• Restart normally and log in.
Let us know how it goes.
cornelius

Powerbook won't boot. Caps Lock Light and NumLock Light on. No other sounds

I'm posting a problem I'm having with my powerbook in the hope someone can give me advice as to what the problem could be. Or how i can fix it.
I have a PB G4 12" (1.33) running OS 10.4.11. All of sudden one day the laptop would not boot. I have tried the PMU reset, taking out the memory, plugging in an external firewire drive, etc but nothing works.
The laptop just won't boot, but I know power is being transmitted as the CapsLock light works, as does the NumLock (which is oddly activated by pressing F5).
Any suggestions/ideas on what the issue can be? Is it a dead mainboard/logic board? Or DCtoDC board?
Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

I found many others with the same issues.
Maybe we can read through their stories and find a solution???
http://www.pinoymac.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18510
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=65275
http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/74915
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=64020
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=110684
http://www.applefritter.com/node/18912
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/powerbookg4/topic2813.html#d06nov2006
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7589764
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=733150&tstart=626
http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/powerbook-g4-boot-problem/334350.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/01/msg00288.html
http://www.pinoymac.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15844

Powerbook won't boot from hard drive or restore disk

I've looked through some of the older posts here and none of them exactly matches my problem, and I've tried just about any possible solution I can think of.
I recently noticed that my PowerBook was acting a bit strange. It was making more fan noises than usual, and sometimes the computer would make the very last noise it makes as it shuts down (which is the hard drive coming to rest, I suppose?), though the computer would still be running. Then, yesterday the computer froze and I hit command-control-power, and when the computer restarted it gave me a folder icon blinking between a question mark and the Mac logo.
I tried restarting again, but I had no luck. Now when I try to start up I get the start-up chime, then I get one of three things:
1) If I restart it without a CD in the drive, I get the blinking folder.
2) If I restart it with the Software Restore and Install DVD in (but without holding down the C key), it gets to the Apple logo and shows the spinning pinwheel or whatever you want to call it, then freezes and some nasty horizontal bars pop across the screen.
3) If I restart it with the Restore & Install DVD in and I hold down the C key, it gives me the Apple logo, then the "Your computer has encountered a problem and needs to be restarted" box pops up.
I tried zapping the PRAM--no luck. I tried Open Firmware; the screen pops up, then I type in "mac-boot" and I get the same thing as in #2 above.
I used the Hardware Test CD; it told me that there was a Mass Storage error with the error code 2STF/1/4. That doesn't sound too pleasant.
I'm not sure what caused it; perhaps it was a heat thing, but I moved it too a different surface. All the hardware is original except for the Airport card, which has worked fine since Christmas. The only recent software changes I've made were updating to the newest versions of iTunes and Firefox. It doesn't seem like a hard drive problem, since the boot CD won't work.
Am I doomed to sending Apple a couple hundred bucks to fix this? The laptop is right at three years old, so even if I'd had AppleCare it would be expiring right about now. Or is it time to buy one of those MacBooks? Or just buy a couple PC's and use each one till it breaks, then throw it out?
Thanks,
Kevin

I finally got to another Mac. I installed Mac OS X onto my Firewire drive, then hooked up the drive to my Powerbook and used the Startup Manager. The drive showed up on Startup Manager and I chose to boot from it. When I did, the startup process continued briefly, then froze just like it does when I try to boot from the CD.
I know my Powerbook's hard drive is shot, and to be honest, I'm fine with that--there isn't any critical, essential data on there. I tried starting the Powerbook up in Target Disk mode, but that doesn't work either--I hear the chime, press T, but the screen stays black.
Now my question is: can I rip the hard drive out? Or do I have not only a bad hard drive, but also something else gone wrong? I'm not opposed to buying a new internal hard drive and installing it myself if that will fix the problem; what I don't want to do is spend a few hundred bucks to take it to someone who's only going to tell me that my omputer is now a paperweight.
Also, my Powerbook isn't one of the ones with a recalled battery. The computer can get pretty hot, even when sitting on a desk, but I just figured that was normal.
Thanks,
Kevin

G4 PowerBook won't boot unless I press Option key - powers off after 20secs

(Originally posted as topic "will only boot when in Verbose mode")
When booting up, my PowerBook only gets as far as the initial black screen and audio chime. After approx. 20 seconds the hard disk/super-drive dies with a high-pitched squeak, just before it was supposed to show the grey screen and then the Apple logo.
If I hold down the Option key, it boots up fine! However, Option-V fails to display the Verbose mode messages (has only done so once after I flashed the PROM, has not done it since.)
I've re-installed Tiger 10.8.4, flashed the PROM, removed the battery and reset the Power Management Unit with 5-second power-switch, but still no change.
Could it be caused by a problem with a faulty video DVI adaptor or socket? (plugs in directly under the power switch - I got an unwanted power-down message as I unplugged the adaptor tonight). The last time the machine worked ok was when I had it plugged in to a multimedia projector throught the DVI adapter.

I'm pretty sure it's not an issue with the OS.
* A clone of the OS on another disk boots fine - this would not boot if the issue was a system one.
* A vanilla Snow Leopard install on the same (not working disk, but 2nd partition) won't boot either. If the issue was with the system this one would boot.
* Erasing this second partition didn't help.
(I've already done all the above suggestions using Single user mode etc.)
Now a similar issue reported here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=501768
suggests using fdisk to make the boot disk 'active'.
+A common mantra provided here to newbies for setting up for installation is:+
+Make the partition Primary+
+Make the partition ID=AF (signifies an HFS partition)+
+Make the partition Active+
+There is a built-in Unix utility in MacOSX that can be used to set your partition "Active". It is called Fdisk+
However, when I use Fdisk my disk reports a negative size:
fdisk: 1> p
Disk: /dev/rdisk3 geometry: -5415437/4/63 [-1364690128 sectors]
However, it also does this with another 1.5TB disk I have suggesting that the size of the disk is a problem. Is there another way to make the disk 'active' as this seems to be where the problem lies.

Powerbook Won't boot - And disk permissions won't repair

My powerbook G4 won't boot normally or in safe mode but will load up using the leopard disk to instilation page. Once there the folowing issues become aparrent;
1. Not enough space to archive and install
2. Disk persmssions can't be verified or repared (the disk can be both verified and repaired and appears normal)Have waited overnight for this to complete and it hasn't.
3. Whilst it connects to networks it doesn't appear on them to allow data to be removed to make space
4. Attemting to use disk utility restore function to copy the hard disk onto a external hard drive fails (bar about 1/8 of the way across predictions stat at 1hr58 and reach 6 hours when the powerbook starts making a lot of noise nad the external hard drive activity appears to halt)
Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Might be worth a shot trying to transfer in TDM, once booted from the install disk:
_http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583_
Good Luck,
Joe

Powerbook won't boot

I have a powerbook G4 that's about 18 months old. I installed Tiger on it about 3 months ago, and have been having misc. problems ever since. It "spins" regularly, and can take up to 15 minutes to come out of sleep mode to where it can boot Safari.
Today it asked to do the Automatic Update, and began to spin again. I could operate other programs normally (Firefox, MSN Messenger, etc), so I just continued doing what I was doing. Auto Update hung, and I couldn't quit out of it, so I forced the computer to shut down (holding the power button for 10 seconds).
Now it won't boot.
I get the initial boot noise, and have tried to boot it normally, which brings me to the initial screen with the gray spinner, and safe mode (shift key), which does the same and then shuts off after about 45 seconds.
Help, please! I LOVE my Mac and would like to be able to use it.
Thanks!!

Did you run the correct version of DiskWarroir on that drive?
You would need version 3.0.3 for 10.4.5. Any other version will not work and could cause a kernel panic.
If that is'nt it mI have kernel panic help for you if you need it. I really think you need to run the AHT disk though. Too bad you don't have it. Do you or your friend have Tech Tool Pro version 4.1.1? That utility will test all your hardware also.
Cheers!
DALE

Powerbook won't boot past apple screen, disk utility can't repair

Last night I applied the most recent software updates, I don't remember exactly what they were but there was a Java update, a security update, a quicktime update and an itunes update. after the required restart, my powerbook g4 won't boot past the apple icon screen.
I can't boot it into safe mode or single user mode.
I can start it up in target disk mode and transfer a handful of files/directories at a time before it hangs.
When I try to run the repair in Disk Utility against the target disk, it gets about halfway before the following:
Verify and Repair disk “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
the disk doesn't make any grinding or anything, just a few clicks when it tries to boot but nothing bad sounding.
Is my computer hosed? Is it worth bringing it to the genius bar?

Hi, Pat. How much time did you give DW to complete its work? Locating the data it needs to rebuild your directory can take a while — that's the step at which DW far outperforms other utilities. It digs deeper and tries harder than anything else, and that can take a long time. The longest successful DW "fix" I've seen reported here in the seven and a half years I've been participating in Apple Discussions was *14 days* of continuous work to find the necessary data and reconstruct a hard drive directory from it. That was after all other disk utilities had been tried and had failed; it was the user's last hope to save data that hadn't been backed up anywhere. If you haven't allowed DW at least a few hours to accomplish its task, give it another chance. And don't try to use the computer for anything at all while DW is working.

Help! Powerbook won't boot..

Hello Mac Users;
I'm looking for some help! I was just sitting here at my desk playing a game on my pc, when I look over at my powerbook, an update has come up. Itunes and Mac OSX update. I reach over to do the update, type in my password, close Itunes, update goes through the process. Finishes the update, and then says I need to restart. I restart the Powerbook, and says something about entourage fails, and the ball just continues to turn for about 15-20min. I panic, press and hold the power button to turn it off. I restart the Powerbook, and hear the ding like it is going to start up, but the display is blank, upon further investigation, I can see the apple in the back ground and the gear turning. The backlight isn't coming on, and the fans will turn on when I power it off, and power it on.. I think I have reset the pvram or whatever, by taking battery out, and holding down powerbutton for 5 secs, I power it back up and still doing the same thing. What happened, and is there anyway for me to get this fixed? I do have apple care, but last time they had to replace the logic board it took 2 weeks. I would try to put in the tiger cd, except I watch the movie Blow this afternoon on it, and it is still in there. I tried to eject the dvd and it won't do anything.
Please help me. What can I do?
Cliffs;
1. update
2. won't boot
3. lcd backlight not on;
4. can see apple and gear
5. tried pvram reset
6. dvd in drive
7. Help?
17" Powerbook G4 1.67ghz

Hello Brandy,
If you cant see the screen at all, or if its very dark...like theres no backlight, i would suggest this to remove the disc.
immediatley after boot chime, press and hold the mouse button on the trackpad. this will automatically eject the disc in the drive, and make life easier for you.
also, try(seperately to removing the disc), after you hear the boot chime, press and hold apple-option-P-R, all together, untill you hear a second and 3rd boot chime then let them go. this may help revive your screen. otherwise, take it on in to the apple service provider. hopefully its something simple, but you never can tell.
let me know how u went
bryza

Powerbook won't boot from CD

Trying to upgrade the OS on my 17" Powerbook G4 and it won't boot from the Panther disk or the Tiger disk. I can't even get it to boot from DiskWarrior CD.
I was able to boot from the original restore disks that came with the machine, but the OS is 10.2.7. I was able to run Disk Doctor, but that didn't seem to do anything.
Anyone experiencing similar issues

I had the opposite problem. I was unable to boot from the restore disc that came with my powerbook, but my retail Tiger DVD worked. I copied the restore disc using my Mac mini, and the copy booted fine. Seems like the slot-loaders are a little picky sometimes.
You could probably convince Apple to exchange the media.

Reset PMU and Powerbook won't boot past the blue screen with "Mac OSX" box

Hi-
Problem: I tried to reset my PMU, and now when my computer restarts it won't go past the blue screen with the "Mac OSX" logo in the box (and progress bar, that never fills up). I then also tried to reset PRAM, but it still won't boot properly.
Backstory--
I've had my 12-inch Powerbook G4 for about 3.5 years already, so things are starting to get a bit out of whack. I replaced my battery about 3 months ago, which has been great, but recently my power-cord has been wonky (having to unplug it and replug it in to make sure it actually charges the computer, the light flickers on and off, etc). Today it actually started producing SPARKS at the place where the thin white wire meets the white plastic power brick, so I decided it was time to get a new one. Brought it home, plugged it in, and since it seemed like the battery indication icon on the menu bar was all out of sync with the powercord colored-light, I tried restarting it a few times, but still the same. Then, I decided to reset the PMU, which may have been a huge mistake. And now it won't boot past the blue screen... Any advice? I'm going to try restarting it in "safe" mode, but I'd be so grateful for any recommendations. Hope I haven't done something irreversibly stupid with the PMU reset.
Thanks,
Samantha

Hello all,
Thanks for all of your great suggestions and info-- here are a few responses.
1) The disk I just borrowed from my friend appears to be the full retail version-- it looks just like the links that Ali B sent, and is in a large box saying "Mac OSX Tiger, version 10.4"... will this be the proper disk to do an Erase and Install? The only other disks I have came with my Powerbook when it was originally purchased, when it came Panther (I think, 10.3?). Would I use both sets of these disks to do erase and install? Or only the Tiger OSX disks?
2) I get the sense that Disk Warrior or Tech Tool might be necessary, but does it make sense to TRY to do erase-install before buying them? Also, are there any downloadable (for pay) versions of this, or would I need to track down the actual physical disks in Hong Kong or wait for them to be shipped?
3) I haven't yet tried the S.M.A.R.T. test, should I do that first? What is the procedure? Are there any results or ways to know if the drive is too far gone (so that I might instead replace the internal hard-drive) instead of pay 100 USD first to do the disk repair?
4) Cornelius said: "An alternative would be to completely reformat and erase the entire HDD, then re-install and restore your data from backup. If your backup is in the form of a bootable clone of the entire HDD, you can just clone it back." I use Super-Duper to back-up and the most recent one copied the whole thing-- what would be the later procedure of "cloning it back"?
5) As I'm able to use my computer pretty normally right now, but does it still mean that it might crash/die at any moment? Is there any way to tell?
Thanks so much!

Power Mac won't boot, a few issues....

My PowerMac was sitting dormant for about 2 years when I decided to get it going. I hauled out the 10.3 install discs a new 80 GB hd and got to work. The cd's booted good and when I got to the installer the screen was black, white and grainy. I thought nothing of it although I could barley read it.
When Mac OS X 10.3 was installed It booted fine and I went into the control panel and it was set to 258 (or so) colors, but was still black, white and grainy.
I reset the NVRAM and PRAM and now the mac goes to the apple logo and turns into a circle with a cross through it. It won't safe boot X, you can't force X to start and cd's won't boot.
The mac has a 128MB, 256MB and 256MB ram chip leaving one ram bank unused.
Anyone have a clue whats wrong?

Is this the first time you've installed OS 10.3 on your B&W G3? I was wondering if you had previously updated the firmware to version 1.1? Did you use the black, universal/retail version "Panther" disks, and not another Mac's grey Restore disk? Additionally, if your B&W G3 has the first revision motherboard, the onboard IDE controller will have problems with an 80 GB hard drive. You can verify which motherboard you have, by scrolling down this article to the section entitled "Revised IDE Controller Chip." An 80 GB drive can be used in a Rev. 1 B&W G3, if it's connected to a Mac-compatible Ultra ATA-133 controller PCI card. They're getting harder to find, as the industry has moved to SATA drives. You might also want to remove and reinstall the graphics card and SDRAM cards from their slots, to create a fresh connection. Over time (and depending on the ambient temperature range where a computer is stored), oxidization can form on the gold-plated contacts and cause problems. I use a soft white eraser and gently scrub the gold-plated pins on the cards, to restore a bright appearance. Care must be taken to prevent electrostatic discharge damage when handling these components, and any small residual rubber shavings from the eraser should be blown off before reassembly.

Powerbook won't get past strange icon upon start-up

Hi,
I have a Powerbook G4 that will not go past this strange icon when I try to start it up. I get the traditional Mac start-up sound, then it takes a long time to do anything, then I get a small icon that is in the shape of a folder. It has the Mac face (it is still "happy") and it will pop a question mark up over the folder.
Last night, it was making a strange noise, so I ran the Disk Utility and it said the hard drive appeared to be OK. This morning, it will not go past the icon. Is it saveable? It is pretty old (6 years).

Your hard drive is dieing or possibly dead! Unplug all peripherals, let the machine cool down and persist in starting up. It 'may' boot so you can back up your data. Try booting from the OS disc and run the Utilities to see if it can repair the issue. There are a few third party apps that may help in recovering data from the disc, but there are no guarantees they will work and, of course, they are not free. Sorry, no joy or easy fix for this one.

G5 won't boot other than 'safe mode'

I've got a first gen. G5 DP1.8 I use exclusively at work. My system locked two days ago, so I forced quit and restarted.
After that the system attempts to boot, then aborts. Came in yesterday morning and it fired up, fine. Restarted just to check it out and that was the last time it has booted in anything other than safe mode. I've reset the PRAM, NVRAM, PMU/SMU, repaired permissions, cache, all the usual stuff. I've tried removing startup items, etc. Seems to be a startup issue as the unit will boot in 'safe'. Finally out of frustration, I upgraded the OS to 10.3.8 thinking that could repair whatever startup issues, but no. I CANNOT get the machine to boot. I get the chime, booting screen, mac icon, and spinning, then it shuts down.
Here's part of the system log if it helps (the first half is an attempted normal boot, the second half is safe mode):
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost syslogd: restart
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost syslogd: kernel boot file is /mach_kernel
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: vmpagebootstrap: 249741 free pages
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: migtable_maxdispl = 68
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: IOKit Component Version 7.4:
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: Wed May 12 16:54:39 PDT 2004; root(rcbuilder):RELEASE_PPC/iokit/RELEASE
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel:
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: DART enabled
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: AppleU3: WARNING: platform-chip-fault expected, but not found
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: Local FireWire GUID = 0xa95ff:0xfeb0a22c
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: ApplePMU::PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE = -122
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: Security auditing service present
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: BSM auditing present
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: From path: "/ht/pci@7/k2-sata-root/k2-sata@0/disk@0:9,\mach_kernel", Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOPathMatch</key><string ID="1">IODeviceTree:/ht/pci@7/k2-sata-root/k2-sata@0/@0:9</string></dict>
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC4PE/ht@0,f2000000/AppleMacRiscHT/pci@7/IOPCI2PCIBridge/k2-sat a-root@C/AppleK2SATARoot/k2-sata@0/AppleK2SATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageD river/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Maxtor 6Y160M0 Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled@9
Jan 1 00:06:06 localhost kernel: BSD root: disk0s9, major 14, minor 12
Jan 1 00:06:07 localhost kernel: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Jan 1 00:06:09 localhost kextd[87]: registering service "com.apple.KernelExtensionServer"
Jan 1 00:06:10 localhost kernel: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Jan 1 00:06:11 localhost kernel: Matching service count = 1
Jan 1 00:06:11 localhost kernel: NVDANV30HAL loaded and registered.
Jan 1 00:06:12 localhost kernel: IOPlatformControl::registerDriver Control Driver AppleK2Fan did not supply current-value, using default
Jan 1 00:06:12 localhost kernel: IOPlatformControl::registerDriver Control Driver AppleK2Fan did not supply target-value, using default
Jan 1 00:06:12 localhost kernel: IOPlatformControl::registerDriver Control Driver AppleSlewClock did not supply target-value, using default
Jan 1 00:06:14 localhost lookupd[125]: lookupd (version 324.5) starting - Sun Jan 1 00:06:14 2012
Jan 1 00:06:14 localhost kernel: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:0a:95:b0:a2:2c
Jan 1 00:06:15 localhost diskarbitrationd[106]: disk0s9 hfs A1A463D9-2067-3BC5-BB8F-207C1EA6026B Macintosh HD /
Jan 1 00:06:15 localhost SystemStarter: Welcome to Macintosh.
Jan 1 00:06:15 localhost SystemStarter: Safe Boot
Jan 1 00:06:15 localhost diskarbitrationd[106]: disk1s3 hfs 7899CE35-7938-3FDC-B5E6-B29320738B05 Audio Drive /Volumes/Audio Drive
Jan 1 00:06:16 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting SecurityServer
Jan 1 00:06:16 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting Apple Multicast DNS Responder
Jan 1 00:06:16 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting kernel event agent
Jan 1 00:06:16 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting timed execution services
Jan 1 00:06:16 localhost ConsoleMessage: Initializing network
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost SystemStarter: Starting SecurityServer
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost SystemStarter: Starting Apple Multicast DNS Responder
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost SystemStarter: Starting kernel event agent
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost SystemStarter: Starting timed execution services
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost SystemStarter: Initializing network
Jan 1 00:06:18 localhost mDNSResponder[181]: mDNSResponder-58.8 (Apr 24 2004 20:38:40) starting
Jan 1 00:06:20 localhost kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties WakeOnACchange 0
Jan 1 00:06:21 localhost kernel: NVDA::doDriverIO() allocating ndrv instance data rec. fNDRVInstanceData = 0x120a9000
Jan 1 00:06:21 localhost kernel: NVDA,Display-A: vram [a8000000:08000000]
Jan 1 00:06:21 localhost kernel: NVDA::doDriverIO() allocating ndrv instance data rec. fNDRVInstanceData = 0x120fc000
Jan 1 00:06:21 localhost kernel: NVDA,Display-B: vram [00000000:01000000]
Jan 1 00:06:22 localhost SystemStarter: The "HasShadow" window property is obsolete. Use CGSSetWindowShadowAndRimParameters(cid, wid, 0.0,0.0, 0,0, CGSNoShadowStyle) to turn off the window shadow instead. Set a break-point on CGSLogMessage to find out where this property is set.
Jan 1 00:06:23 localhost ConsoleMessage: Checking disks
Jan 1 00:06:23 localhost syslogd: /dev/console: Input/output error
Jan 1 00:06:23 localhost init: kernel security level changed from 0 to 1
Jan 1 00:06:28 localhost loginwindow[203]: Sent launch request message to DirectoryService mach_init port
Jan 1 00:06:28 localhost DirectoryService[205]: Launched version 1.8 (v256.6)
Jan 1 00:06:34 localhost SystemStarter: Waiting for network initialization
Jan 1 00:06:37 localhost SystemStarter: Waiting for network initialization
Jan 1 00:06:40 localhost configd[105]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/set-hostna me
Jan 1 00:06:40 localhost SystemStarter: Waiting for network initialization
Jan 1 00:06:40 localhost set-hostname[221]: setting hostname to xxx-xxx's-Computer.local
Jan 1 00:06:43 localhost SystemStarter: Waiting for network initialization
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost ConsoleMessage: Loading Shared IP extension
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost SystemStarter: Loading Shared IP extension
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting printing services
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost SystemStarter: Starting printing services
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost ConsoleMessage: Loading IP Firewall extension
Jan 1 00:06:44 localhost SystemStarter: Loading IP Firewall extension
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost kernel: IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost kernel: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost kernel: IP firewall loaded
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting internet services
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost SystemStarter: Starting internet services
Jan 1 00:06:45 localhost xinetd[274]: 274 {init_services} no services. Exiting...
Jan 1 00:06:46 localhost SystemStarter: Startup complete.
Any help would be appreciated!
G5 DP 1.8 rev 1, 160/1g/SD Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Apparently this has something to do with temp? The
machine will cold boot first thing in the morning
with no problem, but once it's been on for a couple
of minutes it will not restart (except in safe
mode).
It sounds like you have some component changing value with heat. It's hard to tell if it would be on the logic board or in the power supply though without swapping them out. It's strange it starts in safe mode though. Did you try resetting your open firmware?
Open Firmware reset: Hold the CommandOption+OF keys during startup. At the '>' prompt type:
>reset-nvram
Return
>set-defaults
Return
>reset-all
Return
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I was using FontBook to locate and delete the Times symbols sub-font.
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