You see a picture of a disk or a folder with a blinking. I found many other keys that might work, but i havent verified anything except whats listed below. Reboot your mac at the apple chime, press the c key and hold it until you see a white screen, gray apple and eventually a spinning gear. Storage info for each powerbook g4 details on speed, dimensions, and hard drive and ssd interface specifics is listed. Mine was in fact that the operating system was corrupted. This text describes the adventures i encountered while installing linux on an apple powerbook g4 15. Sometimes if volumes dont appear in startup manager what you get when you hold down the option key at startup, you need to reset the macs pram, nvram, and open firmware. Problems may be related to the power supply, battery, hard drive, logic board. Apple watch series 5 promotional pricing is after trade. To use the default boot image on the server, hold down optionn instead. Or use optiond to start up to this utility over the internet.
Page 70 in mac os 9, choose control panels from the apple k menu, then choose startup disk. Ive checked all these on my system running mac osx 10. Toetscombinaties tijdens het opstarten van een mac apple support. My powerbook g4 will not start up in target disk mode. If your mac doesnt start up all the way apple support.
Apple powerbook g4 parts for repair aluminum 12 inch. Apple powerbook g4 disk utility free downloads and. In addition to faster processor speeds, the powerbook g4 ge included a better. How do you replace or upgrade the hard drive in the powerbook g4 models. This video shows you how to restore an ibook g4 to factory settings simple without disk. Clues to the causes of mac startup problems can be found by analyzing when in the boot process the system fails. Disabled in macos mojave or later, or when using a firmware password. Powerbook g4 no password or install discs solved ccm. The utilities folder on the mac os x cd contains startup disk version 9. Complete apple powerbook g4 format without disk super user. Yesterday my powerbook g4 had been running fine, and i installed a bunch of updates had been without internet for a while, so there were many and im not. Makes new powerbooks bronze keyboard, firewire boot from internal drive. Mac specs by capability mac storage upgrades powerbook g4 models. I cant start up my mac powebook g4 laptop august 2008.
Try booting the install disc in verbose mode by holding the commandapplev keys after selecting the disc in the boot menu. Announced in october 2001, the powerbook g4 gigabit ethernet was a speedbump to the original powerbook g4. Hold down the altoption key as soon as you boot the. Information regarding the type of hard drive used in each powerbook g4 model is provided on the specs page for the model of. Mac ssd upgrades for all powerbook g4 models macs by. Solved old powerbook g4 wont boot from any install disc. Thats weird, my dads powerbook g4 is having a similar issue. I eventually gave up and decided to wipe the hard drive. The powerbook g4 is a series of notebook computers manufactured, marketed, and sold by apple computer, inc. This is a bad thing, but at least i learned how to do some cool things with my mac at boot time. Startup manager on the ibook, power mac g4 agp graphics, powerbook.
Basic features of your powerbook 20 additional features of your powerbook 22 inside your powerbook 24 about mac os x 26. This is a last resort way of ejecting a stuck disk in a powerbook g4 aluminum. Revive a powerpc mac running linux the mac observer. Startup stalls at apple logo powerbook g4 titanium dvi. Help please powerbook g4 that is stuck on the grey.
The mac gets stuck on the apple startup screen with spinning gears. Before this you should try ejecting through disk utility, holding the mouse button at startup, try ejecting through. You might be able to find an apple user group with vintage mac users. From a powerbook superdrive to a powerbook battery to a powerbook memory upgrade, we can get your powerbook g4 up and running. Click the lock and enter your administrator password. I have a powerbook g4 and when i press the power buttion the computer makes the apple start up sound and the apple logo with a loading symbol appears but that is all that happens the computer after awhile restarts and it happens again also it sounds like the fan and hard drive are spinning up and keep spinning up. Do i need to use an apple bootloader to trick my powerbook into thinking its booting mac os and then slip in the linux disc or what. When you press the power button, the powerbook checks its memory before it starts up. Start up from a netboot server, if your mac supports network startup volumes.
I imaged the dvd to an 8gb usb stick in disk utility. Apple startup disk for mac free download and software. Full repair services are available for all powerbook g4 models as well. First thing i would do is to reformat the drive with the write zeros option. Hello, my powerbook g4 would freeze about 30 seconds after start up, so i tried to repair with disk utility and it did not help the problem. Opstarten vanaf een netbootserver, als uw mac opstartvolumes op het netwerk ondersteunt. Start up to startup manager, which allows you to choose other available startup disks or volumes. Getting started with your powerbook g4 apple support.
How to securely erase the hard drive on a powerbook g4 before selling it online. The powerbook 1400 is a notebook computer that was designed and sold by apple computer, inc. Thank you for helping us maintain cnet s great community. It seems my mac os is corrupted cause when the ibook start up it display a question mark. To regain access to your powerbook without an installation disc. I hear the chime, get a gray screen, but no apple logo or spinning wheel. Powerbook g4 at startup i only get the apple logo on. Macinternet services for mac users 27 sherlockyour internet search detective 28 apple. Lets call it an ibook g4 on dialysis, anyway the main objective was to erase and reinstall osx 10. I lost the original powerbook g4 12inch startup disks.
How can i securely erase the entire hard drive on my powerbook g4. My apple powerbook g4 will not start up, what can i do. You are wise to want to completely erase the data on your powerbook g4 before selling it. I have tried several troubleshooting methods including different startup key combinations to reset power management.
If you see a message that your security settings do not allow this mac to use an external startup disk, check the external boot setting in startup security utility. How to restore an ibook g4 to factory settings youtube. Powerbook g4 no password or install discs solvedclosed report. Bypasses the startup disk when starting up, and boots from specified scsi id. Startup disk for a powerbook g4 on startup, the g4 only shows a flashing folder with a question. The t key forces the powerbook firewire and reportedly the power mac g4 agp graphics, though i was unable to verify that on my machine to start up in firewire target disk mode, which is essentially. Powerbook g4 does not recognize hard drive macos forum ccm. Hold down the c button while booting to boot from the cd. For some months now i havent been able to start up my mac.
In the startup disk control panel, doubleclick the hard disk that contains your operating systems and select. Assuming that the bootable media is correct for your powerbook, you might need to boot into open firmware and select the optical drive. Recently, the hard drive in my powerbook g4 started making horrible clicking noises, i immediately turned it off. Your macbook pro uses a higher operating system than your powerbook will take. How to select a different startup disk apple support. One could attempt to use target disk mode, to see if possibility exists to. My powerbook g4 is stuck with a big half eaten apple in the middle of the screen after the chime. Put the current operating system disk the disk that came with your computer unless you have upgraded, in that case use the new system disk in the superdrive and restart your. Your mac shows an apple logo when it finds a local startup disk, which is a startup disk built into your mac or directly connected to your mac. Bypass startup drive and boot from external or cd, cmdoptshiftdelete. How to fix common mac startup problems macrx cult of mac. When the wristwatch progress indicator disappears indicating that the startup managers scan for bootable volumes has completed select the apple hardware test volume.
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